Class and Educational achievement
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- Created on: 07-04-18 11:25
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- Class and Education
- Internal factors
- Becker and Keddie say that teachers evaluate students based on their social class.
- Ball - pupils in top streams tend to be from higher classes
- Woods - non conformist actions in schools tend to come from working class students i.e. anti-school subcultures.
- Negative labelling leads to the self-fulfilling prophecy of failure.
- Material Deprivation
- In 1997, the Rowntree Foundation classified 1 in 10 children as poor.
- Halsey - most important reason why WC students don't stay on at school is lack of financial support.
- Poverty and poor living conditions cause health problems and absence from school.
- WC students have less money for books, school trips uniform,
- Cultural deprivation
- Douglas - levels of parental interest are the most important factor.
- Middle class parents are more likely to attend school events.
- Working class parents may not be less interested bu the may work inconvenient shifts etc.
- Bourdieu - middle class parents are more likely to have the right kind of cultural capital.
- Middle class parents pass on cultural capital to their children - this is called cultural reproduction.
- Attitudes
- Sugarmann - WC seek immediate gratification.
- Hyman - WC place a low value on education
- Bernstein - WC students aren't comfortable with the style of language required in schools.
- WC = restricted code
- Middle class students use the same language code as teachers.
- Internal factors
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