Class and education
- Created by: Freya Carter
- Created on: 07-04-21 14:30
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- Class and Education
- External Factors
- cultural factors
- differences in norms & values
- socialisation, speech codes, attitudes to education
- cultural deprivation theory (3 facors responsible for WC under achievement)
- 3 factors responsible for WC under achievement
- language
- Bernstein - elaborated vs restricted code
- parents education
- Feinstein - MC parents are better educated so their children gain an advantage
- WC subculture
- immediate gratification, fatalism, low value on education
- language
- criticisms
- ignores importance of material factors such as poverty
- ignores impact of school factors eg. labelling
- victim blaming. Critics argue WC are not culturally deprived instead have a different culture from the school
- 3 factors responsible for WC under achievement
- differences in norms & values
- material factors
- adequate housing, diet, income
- material deprivation
- poor housing, overcrowding & damp rooms leaving nowhere to do work. frequent house moves meaning changes of school
- poor diet, can lead to illness, absence from school or lack of concentration
- financial cost of education. trips, books, computers, tutors
- Callender and Jackson - WC students are more debt averse. They see more costs than benefits of going to uni.
- cultural capital theory
- Marxists eg Bourdieu argue MC pupils are more successful than WC because their parents possess more capital.
- economic & cultural capital
- MC use their greater economic & cultural capital to obtain educational capital (qualification)
- qualifications allow children to get MC jobs & more economic capital, reproducing MC. rich stay rich poor stay poor
- Marxists eg Bourdieu argue MC pupils are more successful than WC because their parents possess more capital.
- cultural factors
- Internal factors
- labelling
- Becker argues teachers label MC children as 'ideal pupils' and prefer to teach them rather than WC children
- self-fulfilling prophecy
- streaming
- Douglas - IQ of pupils labelled as less able and placed in bottom stream actually fell over time, whereas IQ of those in the top stream increased
- pupil subcultures
- pro & anti school - accept/reject school values
- labelling
- External Factors
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