Class: Internal Factors; Subcultures

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What is a subculture?
A group of people with norms, attitudes and values which are different to mainstream society
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What is a pupil subculture?
A group of pupils who share the similar values and behavioural patterns
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When do pupil subcultures often emerge?
As a response to a label given by a teacher
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What does Lacey explain?
How pupil subcultures develop
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What does Lacey also talk about?
Pro-school subcultures and anti-school subcultures
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What are factors within a pro-school subculture?
Motivated, high achieving, hard working, punctual, enthusiastic, engaged
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What are factors within an anti-school subculture?
Disobedient, don't work, lack of motivation
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What do Lacey's concepts of differentiation and polarisation help us to explain?
How pupils subcultures develop
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What is differentiation?
The process of teachers categorising pupils according to how they perceive their ability, attitude and/or behaviour
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What is polarisation?
Is the process in which pupils respond to streaming by moving towards one of two poles or extremes
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What do subcultures that are given the label of failure search for?
An alternative
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What are boys who are seen as less intelligent predisposed to do?
Criticise and rebel against the school system when possible
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What did Ball do?
Used the study of a school who was in the process of abolishing banding
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What happened when banding was abolished?
The basis for pupils to polarise into subcultures was removed and the influence of anti-school subcultures declined
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What still continued?
Differentiation
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What are teachers more likely to label M/C pupils as?
Cooperative and able
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What did positive labelling of middle class students reflect in?
They had better exam results
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What does Ball show that class inequalities continue as a result of?
Teachers labelling, even without the effect of subcultures or streaming
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What does Woods argue?
That there a variety of responses to labelling and the ideas of Lacey are too restricted
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What are the 4 responses that Woods says?
Ingratiation, ritualism, retreatism and rebellion
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What is ingratiation?
Being the teachers 'pet'
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What is ritualism?
Going through the motions and staying out of trouble
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What is retreatism?
Daydreaming and mucking around
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What is rebellion?
Outright rejection of everything the school stands for
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What is a pupil subculture?

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What does Lacey explain?

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