Education sociologists

• howard becker

  teachers label black and indian pupils differently
• Gillborn and Youdell

  black students labelled as troublemakers
• Bourn

  Black boys are seen as a threat ,lower sets
• wright

  asian pupils left out ,teachers have ethnocentric views
• Willis

  Studied 12 working class boys

  they developed anti school subculture

  argues not labelling but the realisation that no everyone can suceed but will end up with dead end job
• hargreaves

  found those in top sets work hard and suceed

  argues the reason for this was negative labelling
• Bowles and Gintis

  norms and values of school correspond to the norms and values of the work place

  1)produces a subservient workforce of passive and docile workers
• McRobbie

  girls adopt bedroom culture because they are more controlled
• functionalist view on education

  education is a agent of socialisation

  education provides social stability and social cohesion

  BUT

  ignores inequalities and assumes it is beneficial
• Becky Francis

  Social Capital

  working class have high hopes for their kids but cant play the system
• Pierre Bourdieu

  certain cultures are superior and more valued ,these are normally very expensive.
• Ball Bowe and Gerwitz

  discovered middle class had a higher advantage compared to wc

  they had :contacts,money and cultural capital.
• Berstein

  elaborated(middle class)-used in exams

  restricted code (wc)-struggle to access education succesfully
• Ball

  setting and streaming

  -a form of labelling -those in bottom set more likely to join anti school subculture
• noon

  evans and patel -
• sue sharp

  girls priorities were love and marriage they are now jobs and careers
• Tony Sewell 


  girls are more likely to conform to rules
• parsons

  education is a bridge between family and society
• durkheim

  school are societies in miniature
• Davis and Moore

  School sifts and sorts into different jobs