Class differences in achievement: education
- Created by: mmcbride
- Created on: 31-03-15 15:17
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- Class differences in achievement
- Cultural deprivation
- Intellectual stimulation
- W/C parents less likely to give their children educational toys/ activites to do
- Speech codes
- W/C use the restricted code
- M/C use the elaborated code
- W/C subcultures
- Immediate gratification: unlike the deferred gratification (M/C)
- Fatalism: "whatever will be, will be"
- Low value on education: Douglas said they had less interest
- Intellectual stimulation
- Material deprivation
- Poor diet leads to illness leads to absences + lack of concen-tration
- Poor housing
- Low income
- Cultural capital
- Bourdieu argues M/C pupils are more successful because their parents possess more capital
- M/C parents understand education better, their children have an advantage
- Labelling
- Becker argues that teachers label M/C + W/C pupils differently
- Self-fulfilling prophecy
- 'What teachers believe, pupils achieve'
- Label becomes true
- Streaming
- Lacey says that streaming = differentation
- Streams are taught differently
- Pupil subcultures
- Pro-school subcultures
- Anti-school subcultures
- Educational policies
- Government has a great influence
- Marketisation affects streaming
- Grants/fees etc affect material deprivation
- Government has a great influence
- Cultural deprivation
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