Sociological Theories of Education
Across
- 1. Key thinker who studied the Beachside Comprehensive looking at the effects of banding on pupil achievement
- 3. Another word for putting students into sets based on ability
- 10. Women cannot break through the barrier to progress into the most powerful jobs
- 12. The way school and work are similar e.g. both have a hierarchy, rules, a uniform etc.
- 14. When someone lives up to the label they have been given
- 15. The main beliefs of a society that we are taught at school
- 16. School teaches us that we are the same as everyone else and we are all judged by the same standards
- 18. The sense of togetherness we learn at school through team work and being part of a school community
- 19. Men's dominance and power over women
- 20. Things we learn at school which we are not directly taught through the national curriculum
- 21. Boys and girls choose different subjects at school based on the expectations associated with their gender
Down
- 2. The name of Willis' study of the lads in an anti-school subculture
- 4. Marxist key thinker who studied 12 "lads" in a comprehensive school who formed an anti-school subculture
- 5. The process of attaching a meaning or definition to someone e.g. a bad student
- 6. Everyone has an equal chance to succeed and everyone achieves based on their own merit
- 7. At home we are treated as special and our parents treat us as individuals according to these standards
- 8. Interactionist key thinker who studied the "ideal pupil"
- 9. Functionalist key thinker who said that school equips up with the skills needed to support the economy
- 11. Marxist key thinkers who coined the term "correspondence principle"
- 13. Becker found that teachers all had their idea of the characteristics they see as good in a student
- 17. A group of students who misbehave and go against the rules and values of the school