sociology education researchers

• Becker (class) - theory of labelling
• Rosenthal and Jacobsen (class) - self-fulfiling prophecy - experiment into teacher labelling
• Bordieu (class) - cultural capital
• Bowles and Gintis (class) - correspondence principle - The Hidden Curriculum
• Douglas (class) - material deprivation - lower class families lack money to support children in many ways - w/c families care less about children education
• Sugarman (class) - w/c subculture - fatalism, capitalism, immediate gratification, present time orientation
• Bourdieu (class) - 3 types of capital - Cultural capital is the knowledge, attitudes and values of the m/c cultural difference not deprivation. m/c values valued in school
• Gerwitz (class) - parental choice m/c are skilled choosers, use cultural capital to play education market
• Bernstein - Language codes
• Gillborn and Youdell (class) - A-C economy- schools need high achieving pupils to attract funding and high league table positions. Educational Triage- sorting students by ability-difficult students rejected w/c disadvantage
• Archer (class) - Habitus- symbolic violence and symbolic capital, nike identities
• McRobbie (gender) - bedroom culture - women are more suited to classroom behaviour. comparisons of magazines then and now - now more careers and independence
• Mitos and Brown (gender) - Feminists movement raised women's expectations. Girls do better at coursework
• Sharpe (gender) - women values have changed 1970s women focused on family, in 1990s girls were focused on work
• Swann (gender) - teachers spend time telling boys off apposed to helping them with their work
• Epstein (gender) - peer pressure among boy is linked to showing masculinity
• Mac an Ghaill (gender) - male gaze - the way male teachers and pupils look at girls-sees them as sexual objects, dominant masculinity is reinforced
• Mirza (ethnic) - three types of teacher racism identified - Colour-blind, Liberal Chauvinist, Overt Racist
• Murray (ethnic) - issues with 'under-class' in relation to ethnicity , issues with single parents
• Gillborn and Mirza (ethnic) - asian pupils do well
• Keddie (ethnic) - cultural deprivation, cultural difference not deprivation
• Sewell (ethnic) - cultural differences leading to issues in education - not teacher racism - lack of opportunities/ role models, anti-school subculture
• Gillborn and Youdell (ethnic) - teachers hold radicalised expectations - are quick to disciple black pupils for behaviour.
• Ball (ethnic) - ethnic minority group parents are at a disadvantage - less aware of how school system works
• archer (ethnic) - black pupils aren't ideal
• Fuller (ethnic) - black girls challenged negative labels - didn't seek teacher approval
• Durkheim (role of education) - education transmitting the shared values of society and simultaneous teaching and specialised skills of economy based on a specialised division of labour
• Parsons (role of education) - school is a bridge between work and family. schools encourage universalistic values
• Davis and Moore (role of education) - role allocation - school sorts people into roles into society .
• Chubb and Moe (role of education) - private schools are better as they are answering to paying customers. State education doesn't provide students with enough skills for the economy.
• Althusser (role of education) - education is part of the ideological state apparatus - leads to transition of capitalis values and ideology
• Bowles and Ginitis (role of education) - correspondence principle/ hidden curriculum - education prepares you for exploitation and hierarchy in the work place.
• Willis (role of education) - research into anti- school subcultures - boys accept their position in school - teach them to accept mundane work life so much around
• Gerwitz (role of education) - linked to parentocracy - three types of parental choosers - privalleged local choosers, semi-skilled choosers, disconnected local choosers.
• David (educational policy) parentocracy - parents have choices which raises standards in education.
• Barlett (educational policy) - cream-skimming good schools are selective. silt-shifting - avoid taking less able students
• Ball (educational policy) - the myth of parentocracy - not all parents have choice of where they send their children.