Topic 2

What is labelling?

What did Becker's study find?

What did Cicourel and Kitsuse find in their study of American school counsellors?

What did Sharp and Green find in a British 'child centred' primary school?

What is 'self-fulfilling prophecy'?

What did Rosenthal and Jacobson consist of?

How does streaming effect the lower class children?

What were Lacey's concepts that helped explain how pupil subcultures are developed?

What two subcultures did Lacey identify?

What did Ball find out in a school that had abolished streaming?

What responses did Woods find that pupils had to labelling and streaming?

What did Furlong say about pupils responses to streaming and labelling?

What do Marxists criticise the labelling theory about?

What is marketisation?

What did marketisation bring in?

What did Youdell and Gillborn mean by the "A-to-C economy"?

Explain what is meant by the "educational triage".

What is the correlation between funding and league table positions?

What did Bartlett argue that marketisation leads to popular schools doing?

What did Ball et al find about marketing in schools?

What did Macrae find in post-16 education?