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As stated in my rationale I am going to look at labelling based on gender in Primary schools.
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Context As stated in my rationale I am going to look at labelling based on gender in Primary schools. Sociologist Howard Becker came up with the labelling theory. He came up with this theory in relation to the study of deviance. In this study he interviewed 60 Chicago teachers and found that they tended to share a picture of the ideal pupil. They believed that the ideal pupil was highly motivated, intelligent and well behaved and they used this picture as a benchmark to judge the pupils they taught. The pupils they judged to be closest to this ideal were likely to come from a middle class background and those furthest from it were from lower working class backgrounds. As a result the latter were often labelled as discipline problems, as unmotivated and as unlikely to succeed. These labels may well have a significant effect on their educational careers. In his 1977...
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