External Factors Affecting Social Class and Achievement
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- Created on: 06-10-19 16:24
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- External Factors affecting Social
Class and Achievement
- Cultural Deprivation
- lack of values, skills and language- working class parents fail to socialise their children into to mainstream norms and values
- Bourdieu: exam success needs the right culture; the working class are at a disadvantage
- The theory is criticised for blaming the victim, Keddie - blame teachers
- Working
Class Subculture
- Sugarman (1970): fatalism, collectivism, immediate gratification, present time orientation
- Speech Codes: Bernstein (1961)
- At school, teachers, textbooks all speak elaborated code
- The middle class speak in elaborated code- wide vocab, context free, spells out what they mean
- The working class speak in restricted code- less words, tone of voice, context bound
- Parental
Involvement
- Douglas (1964) working class parents place less value on education, less ambition
- Feinstein (2008): middle class parents encourage active learning, education visits, toys and books
- Material Deprivation
- Affects energy during class, children may feel sleepy during school time
- Cultural Capital
- Bourdieu – middle class likely to grasp abstract ideas, intellectually interested and see value in school
- Middle class have houses in catchment areas and can afford to send kids to private schools
- Diet and Health
- Howard (2001), lower intakes of vitamins, time of school
- Housing
- hard to study, disturb sleep, may change schools often, health
- Finance
- Bull (1980), lack equipment, hand me downs lead to bullying, may need to work
- Cultural Deprivation
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