sociologists in education - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
education is a meritocracy + everyone has equality of opportunity	Parsons	65%
functions of education are social solidarity and teacher skills	Durkheim	61%
speech codes - elaborated and restricted	Bernstein	48%
repressive state apparatus + ideological state apparatus including education	Althusser	39%
teachers judge pupils based on how closely they fit "ideal pupil"	Becker	39%
three types of capital - cultural, educational and economic	Bourdieu	39%
schools have middle class habitus giving middle class students advantage	Bourdieu	39%
key features of working class subculture that block educational success	Sugarman	35%
symbolic capital, symbolic violence and hyper-heterosexual identities	Archer	26%
working class girls have a preference for local universities	Archer	26%
deprived children have lower intake of calories and vitamins	Howard	26%
working class parents places less value on education	Douglas	22%
children in high stream improved IQ + in low stream decline in IQ score	Douglas	22%
more educated parents more likely to use praise	Feinstein	17%
development of subculture through differentiation and polarisation	Lacey	17%
schools have been feminised - reward feminine traits + do not nuture masculine ones	Sewell	17%
the cost of free schooling - transport, equipment, uniforms ect	Bull	13%
variety of pupil responses to teacher labelling	Fuller	13%
children can't be deprived of their own culture	Keddie	13%
marketisation improved opportunities for girls who are more attractive to schools	Jackson	9%
girls magazines used to focus on relationships but now focus on career	McRobbie	9%
girls ambitions have changed - in 1970s wanted husband, now want career	Sharpe	9%
cultural capital explained in part but not full achievement gap	Sullivan	9%
boys get more attention but are disciplines more harshly + felt picked on by teachers	Francis	4%
children in same sex schools less likely to avoid "other gendered" subjects	Leonard	4%
girls and boys are socialised differently eg, different activities, clothes + toys	Norman	4%
schools have become more meritocratic for gender due to policy changes	Boaler	0%
correspondence principle + hidden curriculum + myth of meritocracy	Bowles + Gintis	0%
consumer choice - new right perspective of marketisation of education	Chubb + Moe	0%
hegemonic masculinity which subordinates homosexual and feminine idenities	Connell	0%
schools provide role allocation where teaches tell students best suited job	Davis + Moor	0%
coursework doesn't account for gender gap as exams are more important for grades	Elwood	0%
boys get bullied more for trying hard in class as education is seen as effeminate	Epstein	0%
A to C economy and educational triage	Gillborn + Youdell	0%
girls are better at coursework because they are more conscious and better organised	Mitsos + Browne	0%
decline in industry has led to an identity crisis for men reducing self esteem	Mitsos + Browne	0%
most teachers regardless of gender have a disciplinarian "masculine" teaching style	Read	0%
there is a moral panic about failing boys leading to policies shifting to focus on boys	Ringrose	0%
told teachers some students would spurt ahead to test self fulfilling prophecy	Rosenthal + Jacobson	0%
gender domains - certain activities are seen as "for boys" or "for girls"	Ross + Browne	0%
boys dominate larger discussion + girls do better in pairs + are better at listening	Swann	0%

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