Multiple Choice Education

Name three sociologist who believes working class underachievement is due to cultural factors.

• Bernstein (language),

• Sugarman (attitudes and values),

• Bourdieu (cultural capital)

• Durkheim (Social Solidarity)

Which key theorists discussed the ‘correspondence principle’?

• Bowles and Gintis

• Althusser

• Douglas

• Ball

Which Sociologist talks about, an ideological state apparatus?

• Althusser

• Marx

• Douglas

• Gerzwitz

What year was the Education Butler Act introduced?

• 1944

• 1965

• 1988

• 1997-2010

Name FOUR sociologist who believes ethnic minority students underachieve due to material factors

• Palmer (income)

• Howard (diet)

• Bull (cost of schooling)

• Douglas (housing)

• Bourdieu (cultural capital)

Name FOUR things that were introduced by the conservative government that increased competition between schools and choice for parents.

• 1.  

  2. Tripartite System

• league tables,

• formula funding,

• national curriculum

• Ofsted,

Which sociologist argued the attitudes and values of the working class cause them to fail?

• Sugarman

• Marx

• Durkheim

• Bernstein

Which sociologists studied ‘speech codes’?

• Bernstein

• Sugarman

• Bowles and Gintis

• Althussa

List three ways a school can be ‘ethnocentric’.

• School calendar

• history lessons

• food in canteen

• breaktime

Which sociologist studied labelling?

• Becker

• Marx

• Durkheim

• Smith