Sociologists

Rosenthal & Jacobson ( Self-fulfilling prohecy)

Students with poor expectations internalize their negative label , and those with positive labels succeed accordingly.



Paul willis ( Anti-school subculture)

The lads` anti-school subculture is shaped mainly by their expectations about the jobs they hope to get and by the working-class subculture they bring with them to school.



Education doen not turn out an obedient workforce. some kids from an anti-school subculture and cope with school and then adult work by mucking about.



William Lobov (language deprivation)

Working class children speech patterns were not inferior to standard English, they just different.Those who saw them as inferior simply failed to understand the black dialect. he made this conclusion by examing the low-income of african-american children.

Carl Bereiter

The speech pattern from low-income children are inadequate to meet the demands of the education system.

Basil Bernstein

identified two speech pattern. restricted code and elaborated code.

Swann Report

language didn`t afftect progress for later generations.



Daniel Defoe

errr..published novel <<>> ( i only found this...strange..)





Talcott Parsons

School is a bridge between the family and adult roles of society.That`s it, the main agency of secondary socialisation.
Role allocation as main function of the educational system.
Bowles and Gintis
Reject the view of role allocation, as social background influences the most.