Policies
I was introduced to encourage girls to aim higher in the 1980's.
GIST or WISE
Suggest one function of education according to Functionalists.
Promotes social solidarity
Prepares pupils for work
Secondary socialisation
Role allocation
Objective
Quantitative
Verstehen
Reliable
Verstehen
I may be contemporary or historical. I am personal or public. I already exist.
Documents.
I argued that working class females experience symbolic violence in schools.
Louise Archer
Name two policies that have attempted to support pupils from culturally or materially deprived backgrounds.
Free school meals
Pupil premium
Scholarships
Operation Head Start
Sure Start
Education Action Zones
any other relevant suggestions.
According to Althusser, education operates as one of these.
Ideological state apparatus
Teacher attention
Changes in women's employment
Coursework
Selection and league tables
Changes in women's employment as this is an outside school factor and all the others are inside school factors.
I am someone who may stand in the way of a sociologist carrying out research in education.
Gatekeeper.
I argued that there is an elaborated speech code used in education.
Basil Bernstein
What do functionalists consider the role of social policy should be for families?
Should help the family perform it's functions, so in favour of any policies that do that and welcome the Welfare State.
Suggest two ways in which schools correspond with work, according to Bowles and Gintis.
Alienation - lack control over curriculum and production.
Hierarchy of authority - head teacher versus boss
Extrinsic satisfaction - rewards versus pay
Fragmentation of knowledge and job
Competition and division amongst pupils and workers
Source of funding
Informed consent
Deception
Protection from harm
Source of funding as this is a practical factor and all the others are ethical.
I am favoured by positivists.
I allow patterns and trends to be measured.
I am high in reliability.
Laboratory experiment.
We found that teachers were more likely to see Black-Caribbean boys as less able and more disruptive regardless of their social class.
Gillborn and Youdell.
The New Right are not in favour of too much government intervention as they consider this leads to a 'culture of dependency'. But what was Donzelot's objection to state involvement in the family.
He argued that the state is 'policing' the family, which means that families are under too much surveillance by the state.
Murdock argued the family has four functions. What are they?
REES
Reproduction
Education
Economic
Sexual
Beck
Beck-Gernsheim
Smart
Giddens
Smart because she suggested the Connectedness Thesis that challenged the views of the others who are all Individualistic Theorists.
I am useful when studying sensitive topics.
I allow a rapport to be developed between the researcher and participants.
I am more relaxed and informal than other types of me.
Unstructured Interviews.
I found that gay and lesbian households often look upon their friends as part of their chosen families.
Weeks et al.
Drew argued that there are two 'gender regimes'. What are they and which does she believe the West are moving twards?
Familistic gender regimes and individualistic gender regimes.
Moving towards individualistic gender regimes.
Marxist Feminists argue that female oppression in the nuclear family performs three functions for Capitalism.
Reproduce the labour force
Absorbing men's anger
A reserve army of labour
Laud Humphrey's - Tearoom Trade
Ann Oakley - From Here to Maternity
James Patrick - A Glasgow Gang Observed
Eileen Barker - The Making of a Moonie
Ann Oakley - From Here to Maternity
She did not do an observations in her study whereas all the others did.
I collect quantitative data.
I am usually representative.
I may have a low response rate.
Questionnaires.
I argued that the family is like a patchwork.
Beck-Gernsheim.