sociology education

• Subcultures


  Group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often developing their own norms and values
• Symbolic capital


  The status, recognition and sense of worth that students receive from others
• Symbolic capital (negative)


  Using symbolic capital in a negative way
• Working class dilemma


  Dilemma faced by working class pupils to achieve status from their friends or academic capital by rejecting working class identity
• Pro-school subcultures


  • Committed to school values, gain approval through academic success, involved in the wider life of the school
• Types of pro-school subcultures (MacAnGhaill, 1994)

  • Academic achievers: seek to achieve academic success by focusing on traditional academic subjects
  • The new enterprisers: rejected traditional academic curriculum but were motivated to study subjects such as business and union, which they see as a route to economic success
• Anti-school subcultures


  • Lower streams, rejection of school values, truanting, disruption, no doing work