cultural deprivation
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- Cultural deprivation theory
- Intellectual stimulation
- refers to the development of thinking and reasoning skills, such as the ability to solve problems and use ideas and concepts.
- many working class homes lack the books, educational toys and activities that would stimulate a child's intellectual development
- J.B.W Douglas (1964) -that working class pupils scored lower on tests of ability than middle class
- working class parents are less likely to support their children's intellectual development through reading with them or other educational activities at home.
- Bernstein and Douglas (1967)- the way mother think about and choose toys has an influence on their children's intellectual development
- refers to the development of thinking and reasoning skills, such as the ability to solve problems and use ideas and concepts.
- Working-class subculture (sugarman)
- immediate gratification- seeking pleasure now rather than making scarifies in order to get reward in the future.
- fatalism- a belief that you can do nothing to change your status.
- present time orientation- seeing present time as more important than the future and so not having long term goals.
- Hyman- working class don't value education and believe that they have less opportunity for individual advancement
- they place little value on achieving high status job
- their subculture beliefs and values ensure that they neither want educational success, nor know how to get it.
- critics
- it ignores the importance of material factors such as poverty.
- it ignores the impact of school factors, e.g. negative labelling by techers
- it bales the victim for their failure.
- Critics argue that the working class are not culturally deprived
- they simply gave a different culture from the school and this puts them at a disadvantage
- Critics argue that the working class are not culturally deprived
- Intellectual stimulation
- Bernstein (1975)
- the working
class use the restricted code- limited vocabulary, often unfinished,
grammatically simple sentences.
- working class children, lacking the code means that they are more likely to feel excluded and be less successful
- working class people fail not because they are culturally deprived, but because schools fail to teach them how to use elaborated code
- working class children, lacking the code means that they are more likely to feel excluded and be less successful
- the middle class use the elaborated code- wider vocabulary, longer sentences grammatically more complex sentences.
- early elaborated code means that middle-class children are already fluent
- the working
class use the restricted code- limited vocabulary, often unfinished,
grammatically simple sentences.
- Cultural deprivation theory
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