Education Sociology Aqa

|Theorist |Argument |Research Methods |Juxtaposition |

|Jensen (1969) |Intelligence of black children is |IQ tests (laboratory |Incredibly deterministic and |

| |inherited and cannot be changed by |experiment) |fatalistic. Also, one could argue|

| |educational reforms | |that there is a substantial lack |

| | | |of scientific credibility in this.|

|Hernstein and Murray (1994) |Argue that black people generally |As above |Very condescending, deterministic,|

| |apply lower social class positions | |fatalistic, ethnocentric, |

| |because of their lower intelligence | |prejudiced and makes an assumption|

| | | |that IQ tests are flawless. |

| | | |Pilkington argues that IQ tests |

| | | |are a poor way of measuring |

| | | |intelligence. |

|Wright (1992) |Argued that Afro Caribbean males are |Observation,and interviews. |Yet, does the whole focus on Afro |

| |often misunderstood in education and | |Carribean boys and education not |

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