sociology external factors
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- EXTERNAL FACTORS IN CLASS DIFFERENCES IN ACHIEVEMENT
- CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
- lacking basic skills, knowledge and attitudes
- BERNSTEIN restricted (WC) and elaborative (MC) speech codes
- SUGARMAN attitudes and values - WC parents dont value education
- SUGARMAN WC has a particular culture that prevents them from doing well in education: collectivism, present time orientation, fatalism and immediate gratification
- dont have resources or do activities which stimulate a childs intellectual development - Bernstein & Young found toys effect intellectual development - MC mums more likely to choose educational toys
- SUGARMAN WC has a particular culture that prevents them from doing well in education: collectivism, present time orientation, fatalism and immediate gratification
- DOUGLAS the role of parents in early years is crucial as during primary socialisation MC children get greater attention from their parents
- EVALUATION OF CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
- tend to assume that being WC may be inferior
- not all working class children underachieve therefore it doesn't fully explain why some do succed despite being culturally deprived
- lacking basic skills, knowledge and attitudes
- MATERIAL DEPRIVATION
- Lacking of material necessities to succeed
- HOWARD poor diet means lacking nutrition which causes lower engery and illness = more time off school
- housing and overcrowding can effect education as not any room to work at home. GOVE said all children should have space to work
- FLAHERTY cant afford stationary and things required for school- no financial support
- TANNER found that there is a heavy burden on poor families caused by the cost of equipment, stationary and uniform
- may have to deal with hand me downs which can lead to bullying
- may have to work part time or leave education at 16 in order to help support the family
- Lacking of material necessities to succeed
- CULTURAL CAPITAL
- the knowledge, attitudes, values, language of the middle class
- BOURDIEU argues that MC students possess cultural capital which gives them an advantage over the WC.
- the possession of appropriate tastes, attitudes and values which lead to material reward in later life
- GERWITZ MC parents use their economic and cultural capital to get educational capital - they know how schools work and can therefore help their children
- the knowledge, attitudes, values, language of the middle class
- CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
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