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Think of something that you can do really well.
How did you first realise that you were really good at this thing?
How did you feel when you began to realise that you had some talent?
Discuss your answer with a study partner.
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Think of something that you do badly.
How did you first realise that you were really bad at this thing?
How did you feel when you began to realise that you had no talent?
Discuss your answer with a study partner.
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W I Thomas
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How do processes within school affect educational
attainment?
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Sociological TargetsSociological Targets
To understand how interactions between schools and pupils can affect pupil progress.
To evaluate interactionism as a theory.
To use sociological evidence and research to support your judgements.
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Personal targetsPersonal targets
To write an essay length answer
To contribute to whole class discussion in an orderly fashion
To think critically about sociology explanations of inequality in education
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What is interactionism?
Interactionism is also called interpretivism.
The methodology used is generally ethnomethodological
It originated with the work of George H Mead.
It looks at the detailed interaction between people.
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Herbert Blumer (1969) "Human beings act toward things on the
basis of the meanings they ascribe to those things."
"The meaning of such things is derived from, or arises out of, the social interaction that one has with others and the society."
"These meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process used by the person in dealing with the things he/she encounters."
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What do you see first?
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Master status
A person's master status is the most obvious thing about that person.
It controls the way they are identified in public.
The master status becomes a label we attach to people.
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Attitudes We have a tendency to behave in a
certain way toward some people.
It can be both negative or positive
Teachers have attitudes built up over years of experience
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The self fulfilling prophecy and labelling theories explained
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Self-fulfilling Prophecies
This occurs when our beliefs and expectations create reality
Our beliefs and expectations influence our behaviour and others’
‘Pygmalion’ effectperson A believes that person B has a particular
characteristicperson B may begin to behave in accordance
with that characteristic
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Rosenthal & Jacobson (1964) Went to a school and did IQ tests with kids
and told teachers that the test was a “spurters” test
Randomly selected several kids and told the teacher they were “spurters”
Did another IQ test at end of year, “spurters” showed significant improvements in their IQ scores
It is argued that this is because of their teachers’ expectations of them
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Teacher has expectations
Sees child in positive way
Child succeeds
Sees child in negative way
Child rejects teacher
Child fails
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Clever
Stupid
Naughty
Lousy at maths
Nice person
Lazy
Good at art
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How does it work? Working class children seen as poor
learners
Become victims of the self-fulfilling prophecy
Take on the role expected, leaving the middle classes to dominate the top sets
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Do you think this theory is good
enough to account for
school failure?
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Evidence for …
Children in low sets do tend to do less well than children in higher sets; so upper sets in secondary modern schools tended to do better than lower sets in grammar schools.
Children with low self-confidence do less well
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Evidence against …
The study was unethical and cannot be repeated.
The methodology was not reliable Teachers could not remember the
names of the ‘spurters’ The theory is not well supported by the
statistics in the study
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Despite the obvious problems with the study, it
has been very influential and still forms part of the professional study for
teachers.
The theory was repeated by Schools minister, Lord
Adonis in 2006
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Cicourel and Kitsuse (1971) Conducted a study in a school in the
USA and Discovered that a pupil's social class was
an important influence when being assessed.
Even if children from a working-class or a middle class background were of similar ability, those from the middle class were put on more advanced courses.
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Hargreaves (1975)
The success of labelling is dependent on other factors such as: how often the label is used, does the pupil accept and respect the teacher's opinion, do other teachers support the label, and is the label used publicly or privately?
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Lacey Pupils have different experiences of school. They are
labelled and are often placed in different bands and sets.
Schools set definite standards and expect pupils to behave in a particular way.
Pupils see different meanings to their education and discover different ways of relating.
Not every pupil is willing to conform to the images of an ideal pupil. If they fail to do this, pupils then form their own subcultures which reject some of the school's values.
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In opposition … Sukhnandan and Lee (1998) state that
when comparing sets and streaming with mixed ability groups there wasn't a positive or a negative effect on a child's attainment at either primary or secondary school.
Ireson and Hallam (2001) state pupil grouping has little influence on their general achievement.
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Further evidence against …
Heidi Safia Mirza in Young, Female and Black found young black girls often did well in school to spite teachers.
We don’t have to accept labels; students can and do reject labels because people are reflexive.
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Mac an Ghaill (1988) Studied the 'Black Sisters’, young women of African-
Caribbean and Asian backgrounds in an inner-city sixth form college’.
They were critical of the schools that had put them in sets and discriminated against them, and how their ability was neither considered nor encouraged.
They decided that gaining qualifications was the
best thing they could do, and they succeeded by being determined and by supporting each other.
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RevisionRevision Create learning cards Create learning cards for the following termsfor the following terms
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Master status
Interactionism
Labelling theory
Anti-school subculture
Resistance
Teacher expectations
Ethnomethodology
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Criteria for success› Outline interactionism› Explain the evidence for working class underattainment› Assess the strengths of labelling theory› Assess the weakness of labelling theory› Refer to AO1 knowledge about the educational system of
the UK› Use the concepts of sociology› Refer to studies, writers or theory in your answer.› Use evaluative language in your answer
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Independent study
Develop your notes on this topic by looking at the e-book on the NGfL-Cymru website.
Research labelling theory from textbooks and the LRC