Summary AQA A-Level / AS Level Sociology - Education (Subcultures)

Argues that previous studies of subcultures are too simplistic
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There are other responses separate to pro-school and anti
school subculture
Subculture - a
and values but
Eager to please teachers values
Ingratiation
Favourable attitudes towards school Definitions Pro-school - a
and values, foll
Conformist effect on their e

See school as useful but don't have a positive / negative opinion Anti school - a
towards school and values, rej
Compliance
negative effect
Accept rules and discipline, for example 1st year students

More likely to be positive

Opportunism
Pupils who fluctuate between seeking approval from teachers and
from power groups

Go through motions of coming into school but with no real Ritualism
engagement or enthusiasm
Negative
Woods (AO1) Hargreaves: school coun
Subcultures
Pupils who are indifferent to the school's values and exam
success
Messing about and daydreaming
Retreatism
Don't want to challenge authority


Avoid getting in trouble

Try to get away with as much as possible
Colonisation
Express hostility towards school, for example later years of
schooling


Trouble makers

Indifferent to school
Intransigence
Not bothered about conformity

Carried out h
Actively reject school values schools