Sociological Theories of Education

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