Labelling Quiz

What is Labelling?

• Grouping people together depending on their values

• Attaching a meaning or definition to a person

• Judging people based on their gender

The middle class students in primary school were referred to as ' Cardinals and Clowns'

• True

• False

Who argued that 'Schools persistently produce working-class underachievement'?

• Máiréad Dunne and Louise Gazeley (2008)

• Ray Rist (1970)

• Howard Becker (1971)

How many high school teachers were interviewed in Howard Beckers study?

• 50

• 60

• 80

• 100

Outline and explain 1 criticism of labelling

Answer explanation

• The theory has been accused of being too deterministic

• It ignores other people/institutions in power who also tend to label

• Marxsits argue that labels aren't only the result of teachers prejudice but because they are part of a system that reproduces class division

Who did Fuller (1984) study?

• Black girls in year 11

• White girls in year 10

• Black girls in year 10

• White Boys in year 11

.... carried out an interactionisnt study to show how labelling occurred in schools.

What is Labelling?

• Grouping people together depending on their values

• Attaching a meaning or definition to a person

• Judging people based on their gender