Paper 1 SOC

• Davis and moore believe in

  Role allocation-education sorts and shifts individuals
• Althuser-ideological state apparatus is?

  ideological state apparatus creates a false class conscience so is more effective (schools) and the ruling class control peoples ideas and beliefs through education, media and religion.
• What is the repressive state apparatus?

  Ruling class use force to control the working class and protect their power in society via police
• WIllis theory of education is


  boys tend to do worser than girls in school due to having an anti school subculture
• willis also stated

  school acts as a self fulfilling prophecy-living up to your given label
• school curriculum is?

  Androcentric-male dominated
• Bourdieu claims

  that middle class have a cultural capital whilst working class don't
• Who found schools created a educational triage

  Gillborn Youdell found that schools tend to divide pupils into three groups based on how well they expect them to do, this is known as ‘educational triage’.
• Groups of educational triage

  The first group is made up of pupils who are likely to succeed without any extra help. In the second group are pupils who might succeed with extra help. The third group is the ‘no-hopers’ who are unlikely to succeed even if they are given help.
• four aspects of educational opportunity:

  Equality of access. Equality of circumstances. Equality of participation. Equality of outcome.
• Equality of circumstances is Everyone should start school at the same point in terms of home and material circumstance.
• Which system was the first to provide free sec ed

  Tripartite system
• Compensatory education policies included:


  Educational Action Zones/Excellence in Cities (late 1990s – 2000’s). The pupil premium (2010 onwards). This gave schools with pupils from low income backgrounds more money and this had to be spent explicitly on helping those pupils.