Assess the strengths and limitations of using group interviews to investigate anti-school subcultures (20 marks). There are many practical strengths and limitations when using group interviews for researching anti-school subcultures. The first strength is that it is a group of interviewees meaning that they are more confident especially with students who have similar characteristics with their peers in the interview because they are more comfortable which means they are not reluctant to answer the
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growing number of fans have established a new youth subculture and devoted themselves into it. In the article “Heavy Metal Music: A New Subculture in American Society”‚ Robert L. Gross introduces the heavy metal music and its subculture. He organizes his article in a good way in that he examines five aspects of heavy metal music and the subculture. It does not matter whether the readers know heavy metal or not; they can easily understand how the subculture was built and how it evolved from these five detailed
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Access how factors within educational policies in Britain cause educational underachievement for the working class subculture. Educational policies have important effects on inequalities between class subcultures in education‚ I have picked out three of the educational polices between 1944 and 1988 that I believe has influenced working class achievement the most‚ the butler tripartite system in 1944‚ the comprehensive system in 1965+‚ and the ERA (new right policy) in 1988. The first policy that
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Using Indian/Bangladeshi Model of Micro Financing to Develop Entrepreneurship amongst U.S. Prisoners Re-entering the Community Dylan Hood‚ Sophia Loupakos‚ Mary Kate Wagner Loyola University Chicago Introduction At the end of calendar year‚ it is expected that the adult prison population in Illinois will be 35.1% over rated capacity‚ totaling 47‚054 inmates in a correctional system with a rated capacity of 32‚609. There also exist 51.1 percent recidivism rates. One of the
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on the criminal justice system? The study of criminology has had a significant effect on the criminal justice system since the 1700’s. There are three main schools of thought within criminology‚ they are - Classicist - Positivist - Chicago/Subculture theory Discussion Criminology is the study of causation‚ correction and the prevention of crime. Criminology was brought about during the late 18th century when people sought the reform of the criminal justice and penal systems. This was because
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experiences. Evidence suggests that those ethnic groups who tend to underachieve also tend have low incomes. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2007 estimated that 70% of Bangladeshi and over 50% of Pakistani children grow up in poverty‚ compared to 20% of the white population and 30% of Indians. Unemployment is 3 xs higher in African and Bangladeshi/Pakistani people than for whites and Pakistanis are 2x more likely to be in unskilled/semi skilled jobs compared to whites which can lead to material deprivation
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Assess the importance of school factors such as racism and pupils’ response to racism in creating ethnic differences in educational achievement. Racism is a system of beliefs that defines people as superior or inferior‚ and justifies their unequal treatment‚ on the basis of biological differences such as skin colour. Individual racism refers to the prejudiced views and discriminatory behaviour of individuals. Institutional racism exists when the routine ways an organisation operates have racist
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like other pupils may get‚ which can lead to their own failure causing a vicious cycle. Evidence suggests that those ethnic groups who tend to underachieve also tend have low incomes. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2007 estimated that 70% of Bangladeshi and over 50% of Pakistani children grow up in poverty‚ compared to 20% of the white population
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well over 100 languages are in routine use in the UK. Children from minority ethnic backgrounds make up about 21% of all pupils in English schools. As stated in item A‚ “at GCSE‚ on average‚ Chinese and Indian pupils perform better than White‚ Bangladeshi‚ Pakistani or Black pupils” In addition‚ it is found that there are major class differences in performance with many working class white pupils performing at a lower level than that of other ethnic groups. For example‚ Hastings (2006) sees that
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statistics tends to over represent ethnic differences in offending and victimisation. However‚ self-report studies carried out by Graham and Bowling found that black and whites have very similar rates of offending‚ while Indians‚ Pakistanis and Bangladeshis had much lower rates. In terms of victimisation‚ black people are significantly over-represented among those identified by victims as offenders in victim surveys. From the mid-1970s‚ increased conflict between the police and African Caribbean
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