Cultural Deprivation
- Created by: Beth Pridding
- Created on: 16-04-13 21:11
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- Cultural Deprivation
- Cultural Capital
- Cultural capital - assets which are not financial
- Economic capital - wealth
- Educational capital - quality of education
- Theorists
- Alice Sullivan
- Conducted a survey of 465 pupils across 4 schools to assess their cultural capital.
- She found that students who read complex fiction, attended art galleries and watched TV documentaries achieved higher GCSE grades
- Sharon Gewirtz
- She used secondary documents and interviews over 14 schools
- She found that middle class families with cultural and economic capital could take advantage of the education system
- Marketisation allows middle class parents to decide which school would be best for their children to achieve the most
- Alice Sullivan
- Material Deprivation
- Theorists
- Marilyn Howard
- Saw that children from poorer homes have a lack of nutrition, which affects their health.
- This makes them miss days of school as a result of illness
- Richard Wilkinson
- The lower the social class of a child, the more likely they were to have disorders of hyperactivity, anxiety and conduct, all of which would negatively affect their educational achievement
- Marilyn Howard
- Working class families are more likely to experience material deprivtation
- Lack of money
- Children of lower income families often have a lack of resources and miss out on opportunities to go on trips that could expand their learning
- Tanner found that poorer children often were given hand-me-downs and second hand materials and could be bullied at school affecting their mental health
- Children from lower class families often have to get jobs at a younger age, affecting their education
- Unsuitable accommodation
- If their house is overcrowded, the direct effects could be disturbed sleep or having no room to study
- If a family moves around often, the child could struggle to get into any form of routine , making it difficult for them to adapt to new situation
- Children living in overcrowded are more at risk of accidents or illness
- Increased health risks
- Theorists
- Marilyn Howard
- Saw that children from poorer homes have a lack of nutrition, which affects their health.
- This makes them miss days of school as a result of illness
- Richard Wilkinson
- The lower the social class of a child, the more likely they were to have disorders of hyperactivity, anxiety and conduct, all of which would negatively affect their educational achievement
- Marilyn Howard
- Children from low income families are often more at risk of behavioral and emotional problems
- Theorists
- Lack of money
- Theorists
- Cultural Deprivation
- Attitudes and values
- Middle class parents are more likely to take an interest in their children's education
- Barry Sugarman
- Fatalism
- 'What will be will be' - children are less likely to move past challenges easily
- Collectivism
- Wanting to be a part of a group more than individually achieving
- Immediate Gratification
- wanting rewards straight away - children are less likely to make sacrifices which will benefit them later on
- Present-time Orientation
- Children see the present as more important than the future and therefore don't set long-term goals
- Fatalism
- Barry Sugarman
- Middle class parents are more likely to take an interest in their children's education
- Intellectual development
- Middle class children have more access to educational toys, and so have an advantage over working class children
- J.W.B Douglas
- Working class students scored lower on ability texts than middle class students
- Bernstein and Young
- Parents' choice of toys affects intellectual development. Middle class mothers are more likely to purchase toys which encourage thinking and reasoning
- Language
- Working class children are more likely to grow up with 'restricted code' language.
- This makes it difficult for them to to express abstract ideas
- Middle class children are more likely to grow up with 'elaborated code' language
- It contains more complex sentences and a wide vocabulary, which is favoured by the education system
- Working class children are more likely to grow up with 'restricted code' language.
- Attitudes and values
- Cultural Capital
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