sociologists - EDUCATION

• Ball -

  • effects of setting and teacher expectations on achievement
• Durkheim -

  • Functionalist
  • education transmits society's norms and values
  • Social Cohesion
  • rules are strictly enforced to promote discipline and allow for society to run smoothly
• Parsons -

  • Functionalist
  • schools act as a bridge from the family to society
  • schools are meritocratic
  • schools socialise children into basic norms and values - allowing for a value consensus
• Bowles and Gintis -

  • Marxist
  • Correspondence principle
  • schools are not meritocratic
  • class determines achievement
• Willis -

  • Marxist
  • 12 lads - working class boys who joined a subculture
  • subcultures prepare working class children for low paid jobs
• Ball, Bowe and Gerwitz -

  • effect of marketisation and parental choice
  • league tables put pressure on schools to gain better exam results
• Halsey, Heath and Ridge -

  • no perspective
  • sample of 8000 males
  • service, Intermediate and working class