Labelling

• Named main internal factors
• interactionist approach
• students who achieve high grades

  • Goody two shoes, teachers pet
  • nerd, Einstein, sweat
  • pleasure to teach, committed
  • billy no mates, creative
• students who achieve bad grades

  • class clown, disrupter, bully's
  • dunce, careless, troublemaker
  • slow, stupid, chav
  • lazy, unsuccessful freak
• Howard becker

  • teachers idea of the 'ideal pupil' match labels they give to middle class
  • etc bedroom culture
• Self fulfilling prophecy

  • students become their label
  • eg middle class students labelled as intelligent maybe more motivated
  • eg working class students labelled as naughty may be told off when a group is misbehaving
  • if teachers believe, the students achieves
• evaluation

  • it is too deterministic
  • teachers argue they have professionalism and dont label students
  • master status