1. Social Class Differences and School Processes
... creates an unequal class divide as the majority of the negative labels are usually attached to working class and minority groups, however others argue that labels don't always affect a child's educational success as some children may use it as motivation and work hard to prove the labels wrong. As Becker ... are often only those of middle class. Mary Fuller (1984) criticizes Becker as she found that the labeling theories are too deterministic, students don't always live up to the labels they've been given, her study on black girls in London who were negatively stereotyped by their t...
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