Education Test
Education Test – the studies
1) What did Durkheim see as the major function of education? (1)
2) What term did Durkheim use for the welding of a mass of individuals into a united whole? (1)
3) In what way did Hargreaves criticise the modern comprehensive school? (2)
4) Give one criticism of Durkheim. (1)
5) According to Parsons, how does school act as a bridge between the family and wider society? (Refer to Particularistic and Universalistic values) (3)
6) Who saw education as a system of role allocation? (1)
7) Give two criticisms of this theory. (2)
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8) In what way is the theory of Bowles and Gintis a Marxist theory? (3)
9) What did Bowles and Gintis mean by ‘jug and mug’ theory? (1)
10) What was Willis’s main method of investigation? (1)
11) State 2 criticisms of Willis’s Learning to Labour. (2)
12) What did Douglas see as the single most important factor related to educational attainment? (1)
13) State two criticisms of Bernstein’s work on speech patterns. (2)
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14) What is cultural capital? (4)
15) How did Ball et al expand upon Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital? (2)
16) Should the work of Rosenthal and Jacobson be located within the interactionist tradition or is it a subcultural theory? (1)
17) Whose study of Beachside Comprehensive found that students were placed in streams according to their class background? (1)
18) State two criticisms of interactionist theory. (4)
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19) What was Spender implying with the title of her study? (2)
20) State 3 of the reasons given by Mitsos and Browne that help explain the improved achievement of women. (3)
21) Coard argues that black children are made to feel inferior at school. State 2 ways in which this occurs. (2)
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2.
22) How does Mirza’a study refute more
1) What did Durkheim see as the major function of education? (1)
2) What term did Durkheim use for the welding of a mass of individuals into a united whole? (1)
3) In what way did Hargreaves criticise the modern comprehensive school? (2)
4) Give one criticism of Durkheim. (1)
5) According to Parsons, how does school act as a bridge between the family and wider society? (Refer to Particularistic and Universalistic values) (3)
6) Who saw education as a system of role allocation? (1)
7) Give two criticisms of this theory. (2)
1.
2.
8) In what way is the theory of Bowles and Gintis a Marxist theory? (3)
9) What did Bowles and Gintis mean by ‘jug and mug’ theory? (1)
10) What was Willis’s main method of investigation? (1)
11) State 2 criticisms of Willis’s Learning to Labour. (2)
12) What did Douglas see as the single most important factor related to educational attainment? (1)
13) State two criticisms of Bernstein’s work on speech patterns. (2)
1.
2.
14) What is cultural capital? (4)
15) How did Ball et al expand upon Bourdieu’s theory of cultural capital? (2)
16) Should the work of Rosenthal and Jacobson be located within the interactionist tradition or is it a subcultural theory? (1)
17) Whose study of Beachside Comprehensive found that students were placed in streams according to their class background? (1)
18) State two criticisms of interactionist theory. (4)
1.
2.
19) What was Spender implying with the title of her study? (2)
20) State 3 of the reasons given by Mitsos and Browne that help explain the improved achievement of women. (3)
21) Coard argues that black children are made to feel inferior at school. State 2 ways in which this occurs. (2)
1.
2.
22) How does Mirza’a study refute more