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Case studys sociology, Learning to labour, Young gifted and Black, Just…
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Learning to labour
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What was the studyStudied working class boys in the midlands. His study focused on "the lads", a anti school subculture that formed
These subcultures messed around and actively went against school for fun as they didnt see the point in school. THis was because many were destined to join there fathers in industrial factories
These students cared more about the praise of there peers than the praise of teachers , they would achieve this through truency, bad behavior racism, sexism and homophobia
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Overview of study and findingshe concluded that school was not working very well as an agent of socialisation: there was no value consensus here: pupils were actively rejecting the norms and values of society. As such, they were a long way from the hard-working, docile, obedience workers suggested by Bowles & Gintis! And yet the outcome was much the same: the children of working-class parents going on to do working-class jobs. In this study they played an active role in this: they thought school was boring and pointless and was something they had to endure until they could go to work. They had a similar attitude to work, and got through it using similar techniques: "messing about" and "having a laff".
Ethical issuesusing the research methods he did around children would be seen as unethecial and not be allowed today
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Young gifted and Black
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Pratical and ethical issues There is little chance schools or parents would grant an adult researcher access to research their children in this way, and it would be impossible to do this covertly, because if posing covertly as a teacher or an LF, you wouldn’t naturally ‘hang out’ with students.
Pratical and theoretical problemHe originally wanted to study Irish school students but no one could help him do this, so he was advised to study African Caribbean students instead. As to the Black Sisters he never intended to study them, but they found him – because he was perceived as being on the side of the students they were happy to talk to him about their views of racism.
carried out two ethnographic studies in inner-city educational institutions where he worked. The first study looked at the relations between white teachers and two groups of male students with anti-school values
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Just Like a girl
Key findings
-Girls in the 1990s still expected to undertake 'women's work' (e.g. health and clerical work) despite increasing structural unemployment and available training schemes; due to this expectation girls had little incentive to achieve high educational standards.
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-While few girls identified themselves as feminists, they expected husbands to be 'new men' helping them with housework and childcare.
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1972, repeated study in 1994 and saw limited continuity
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