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Sociology Spring Assessment Revision - Coggle Diagram

- - - - OVERALL
        
        Secondary Socialisation
        
        Learning specialist skills for work
        
        Social cohesion (sense of belonging to wider society)
      - Durkheim [1925] (S,S,S)
        
        Social solidarity (shared set of values & culture)
        
        Society in miniature
        
        Skills for work
        
        Criticism of Durkheim
        
        Marxists: Benefits ruling class (private schools)
        
        Feminists: Patriarchal culture transmitted.
      - Parsons [1961] (MURV)
        
        Meritocracy
        
        Universalistic values
        
        Role allocation
        
        Value consensus
        
        Criticism of Parsons
        
        Marxists: Value consensus only of dominant groups in society.
        
        Feminists: Gender can affect achievement.
    - - Bowles and Gintis [1976]
        
        Correspondence Principle...
        
        Myth of Meritocracy
        
        Criticism of Bowles and Gintis
        
        Deterministic View: Students have free will to reject school values
        
        Modern economy needs creativity and independence.
    - - Gendered subject choice.
        
        Mitsos & Browne [1998]: In-school factors affect gendered subject choice.
        
        Either way, this creates gender inequalities later in life.
        
        Murphy & Elwood [1999]: External factors including family affect gendered subject choice.
      - Changing attitudes
        
        Sue Sharpe [1994]: Compared attitudes from 70s and 90s, "marriage, husbands, children" to "job, career".
      - Tony Sewell [2010]: There has been a "feminisation of education", making boys less comfortable with their learning environment.
  - - - Douglas [1967]: Living conditions affect performance at school.
      - Poorer conditions leads to higher absenteeism.
    - - Class of children, measured with Free School Meals.
      - 27% gap. Those with free school meals achieve less A*-C grades compared to everyone else.
    - - Government Plowden Report [1967]: stressed importance of parental attitudes on educational success.
      - Middle Class values contribute more to study and individual achievement.