Social Class Differences in Education - External Factors
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- Social Class Differences in Education - External Factors
- Cultural Deprivation
- Intellectual Development
- development of thinking and reasoning skills
- Douglas - found working class boys scored lower on tests than middle class boys
- argues working class parents are less likely to support their children outside of school
- Language
- Bernstein looked at language difference between working and middle class students
- Attitudes and Values
- Suagrman - argues working class subculture has 4 barriers that affects their educational achievement
- Fatalism - working class don't believe they can change their class, middle class do
- Collectivism - valuing being in a group rather than being an individual
- Immediate Gratification - seeking pleasure now rather than making sacrifices for the future
- Present time Orientation - working class don't set long term goals whereas middle class see setting goals for the future as important
- Suagrman - argues working class subculture has 4 barriers that affects their educational achievement
- Intellectual Development
- Material Deprivation
- Cultural Capital
- Bourdieu - both cultural and material factors link to educational achievement but are related not separate - uses the concept of capital to explain why the middle class is more successful
- the knowledge, attitudes and values that middle class have that gives them an advantage
- Three parts to cultural capital - economic, social and cultural
- Leech et al - found middle class parents are more likely to afford a house in the catchment area of a deirable school
- 'selection by mortgage' - drive up demads for houses near successful school
- Cultural Deprivation
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