Education key theorists

• Durkheim


  School creates a value consensus and social solidarity

  
  

  School gives people specialist skills they can use in the workplace
• Parsons


  Believes in the idea of meritocracy, at jobs and pay should be allocated based on talent and effort

  
  

  School is a bridge between society and family
• Davis and Moore


  Role allocation - education acts as a sieve of ability for the job market
• Blau and Duncan


  Human capital - the economy depends on skills, the more you have the more you're worth
• Bordieu


  Habitus - the education system is in the RC's habitus (framework of ideas) so it is easier for WC individuals to do well

  
  

  Reproduction of class inequality through this
• Illich and Frier


  Conformity and acceptance created through the hidden curriculum
• Althusser


  Education is an ISA used to condition individuals

  
  

  Reproduction of an efficient labour force
• Chubb & Moe


  Marketisation of education - beneficial to drive up standards
• Bowels and Gintis


  Correspondence principle
• Willis


  Learning to labour -

  
  

  Student subcultures
• Rosenthal and Jacobson


  self-fulfilling prophecy
• Douglas


  Parental interest has an impact on how well a child does.
• Bernstein


  Restricted and elaborated speech codes
• Bordieu


  Cultural capital, middle class have an advantage
• Mitsos and Browne


  Girls tend to do better than boys, they mature earlier, have better peer groups, read more

  
  

  Known as the feminisation of education
• Forde et al (2006)


  Men are going through a masculinity crisis
• Colley


  Gendered subject choices
• Francis


  Gendered identities -

  -Verbal

  -Physical

  -Gendered Pursuits

  -Expectations
• Mac an Ghaill


  Self fulfilling prophecy doesn't exist - instead coping strategies are formed
• Lupton


  There is class opposition to education, many middle class value it and many LC don't
• Ball


  Parentocracy is a myth

  
  

  Education has become a commodity, something that is brought and sold
• Ball and Youdell


  Endogenous and exogenous privatisation
• norman


  Differential socialisation has led to educational inequalities between girls and boys
• Becker


  Interviewed 60 Chicago high school teachers and found MC children were seen as closest to the 'ideal pupil'. Work, conduct and appearance all influenced their judgment
• BeckerClass- Labelling theory
• Rosenthal and JacobsenClass- Self-Fulfilling prophecy
• Bowles and Gintis 


  Class- correspondence principle, the hidden curriculum
• Class- Material deprivation: Lower class families lack money to support children in many ways- working class families may care less about their children's education


  Douglas
• McRobbieGender- bedroom culture: women more suited to classroom behaviour
• Mistos and BrowneGender- feminist movement raised women's expectation, girls do better than boys at coursework
• SharpeGender- research into values of women have changed: 1970s women focus on family, later in 1990s, girls were focused on work
• swann - Gender- teachers spend time telling boys off as opposed to helping then with work
• ball


  Ethnicity- ethnic minority group parents are at a disadvantage, less aware of how the school system works
• parsons


  Role of education- school is a bridge between work and the family. Schools encourage universalistic values.
• davis and moore


  Role of education- role allocation: school sorts people into roles in society. This is why there is inequality as all roles must be filled
• 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
• Role of education- correspondence principal/hidden curriculum: education prepares you for the exploitation and hierarchy in the workplace


  bowles and gintis
• Educational policy- linked to parentocracy, three types of parental choosers: privileged local choosers, semi-skilled choosers, disconnected local choosers


  gerwitz
• cream skimming theory ( starts with bar)


  barlett
• ball


  the myth of parentocracy, not all parents have a choice of where they send their children