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Describe the different ways in which sociologists understand how inequality works within school situations and comment on their validity
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Education Describe the different ways in which sociologists understand how inequality works within school situations and comment on their validity Inequality comes in many forms within the school community, whether it is in the social or academic groups, because of colour, wealth or gender and is impossible to avoid. In the first ages of compulsory schooling, the Tripartite System was introduced. This was a system whereby the pupils were tested in the 11+ and the results determined which secondary school they went to. For the bright children there were the Grammar schools, for the mechanically minded they went to the technical schools, and the low achievers went to the secondary modern. This caused much questioning by sociologists due to certain statistics. Halsey, Floud & Martin stated that sons or daughters of professional people had a 1 in 1 chance of going to grammar school, whereas working class children only had a 1...
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