Assess the view that gender differences in achievement are the result of changes in wider society. Boys and girls are achieving high and well in education. Girls have always been high achievers in education but over the last 50 years. Only some boys are falling a little behind than usual, but this is due to a very close link between boys underachievement and social class. There are many reasons to as why there is a huge difference between girls and boys achievements.
Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess the view that gender differences in education are largely the result of changes in the education system. A notable feature of the education system in the UK is differences in achievement between boys and girls. Official statistics provide evidence of gender differences at all stages of education. On entering school, girls were able to concentrate for longer than boys; by the end of KS3, girls perform better than boys, especially in English; at GCSE, the gender gap is very prominent with girls achieving 65% 5+ A*-C compared to 55% of boys. Sociologists have put forward many explanations for these differences, many of which are a result of changes in the education system.
Department of Education that show that girls outshine boys in reading, writing, science, math, and have a lot higher educational aspirations. She also gives us data that shows that girls are starting to beat boys in enrolling in college, and that girls are more engaged in academically then boys. She implies that all of this has been happening because the educational doesn’t “favor” boys over girls anymore. I agree with that statement, but I also don’t think that the educational should let boys be “left behind” either. Yes, boys are bad at school; I can say this because I’m a boy and I see everything first hand, my peers are less and less interested in school and college, they often talk about just either dropping out of high school and getting a job, graduating and just work and not go to college or simply join the military.
There was a big number of unemployment among black teenagers, because discrimination was still a significant factor. The unemployment rate for black people who had attended college, was 27.2% and those who had graduated from high school was 23.6%. It was higher than the unemployment rate for white high school dropouts, which was 22.3%. It was obvious that the black students were being discriminated, because the white students that didn’t t even finished high school were getting more jobs opportunities than blacks. With the Affirmative Action program there was a dramatic increase in college attendance among blacks, yet there was still an astounding amount of unemployed blacks.
The study found that the counsellor judged pupils largely on their social class; this therefore put them at a disadvantage as middle-class students were placed on higher level courses. The self-fulfilling prophecy is another internal factor that can be linked to social class differences in achievement. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true simply by virtue of it being made. Some sociologists argue that labelling can effect pupil’s achievement by creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. This can be seen in a study of a primary school by Rosenthal and Jacobson.
Assess the sociological explainations of why girls acheive better results than boys (20 marks) There are many reasons why girls do better than boys in education . It is proven that boys mature later than girls and that girls are often ahead in language, it is said that at the age of 11 average boy is 9 months behind an average girl. Female expectation and behaviour also contribute to the fact that statistically girls are doing better than boys and I will now develop and assess some of these factors. Women expectations and plans for the future have changed over time. Sue Sharpe (1976) have carried a survey which led to her discovering that girls priorities were marrige and family over career and education however when repeated in 1994,
Nationwide 56 percent of women are undergraduates. Two years ago demographics predict that 42 percent of men in the Unites States will receive baccalaureate degrees. Rich also says colleges has reached what is called a “tipping point”. This is where 60 percent or more females are enrolled, and steadily increasing. Rich is disagreeing , that females are getting better grades in school.
Waiting for Superman Sociology Film: Waiting for Superman The United States of America has the best public education system in the world. In the past 30 years, though politicians constantly stressed the need to improve the disadvantages of clusters of the education system, and the children's education has not change, but it shows worrying prospect. The children who were born in ordinary families have many obstacles in reading and math, and substantially lower than the average level of other developed countries in the world. Many high school became dropout factories, countless children work into society prematurely, also the fund of prisoners is higher than the students. The current public education system in the United States is
Physical bullying declines with age and is the least common form (Olweus, 1993). In girls, covert bullying tends to increase in frequency in late primary school, whilst it increases in early secondary school amongst boys. It usually occurs within the same gender, that is 47% amongst boys and 48% amongst girls (Cross et al., 2009). However, 32% of boys and 28% of girls were bullied by both genders. Covert bullying was slightly higher amongst girls with overt bullying being higher amongst boys (Cross et al., 2009).
PSE 4UI - Portfolio #1 Bonnie Schumacher September 18, 2008 This article highlights the vast differences in how much male athletes and female athletes make as professionals. For example, in a review of the top 10 highest paid male and female athletes, the highest paid female, Maria Sharapova made only $26 million, whereas the 10th-highest paid male playing the same sport, Roger Federer made $35 million. There are many reasons why men get paid more than women in sport: their training costs more; there is more media attention around male sports, and equipment, etc. costs more. I find this topic of interest because it is interesting that after so many years of struggling for equality with males, females have still not found a balance in all aspects of life.