Education is a device for selection and role allocation. Inequality is necessary to ensure that the most important roles in society are filled by the most talented people.
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Card 17
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The education system legitimates class inequalities via ideologies that justify it.
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Card 18
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The publication of school league tables encourages 'cream-skimming' and 'silt-shifting'.
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Card 19
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Differences in parents' economic and cultural capital lead to class differences in how far they can exercise choice of secondary school.
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Marketisation gives the appearance of parentocracy - the education system being based on parents having a free choice of school.
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Adult authority in Asian families are similar to the model that operates in schools. Respect for adults that was expected from Asian children has a knock-on effect in school.
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Lone mothers of many black families raise deprived children as she must struggle financially as the sole breadwinner.
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The high rate of lone parenthood and a lack of a positive male role model leads to the underachievement of some minorites.
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Cultural deprivation theorists ignore the positive effects of ethnicity on ahievement. Black caribbean families are far from beign dysfunctional, they provide positive role models of strong black independent women who don't need no man.
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A lack of fatherly nurturing/tough love is the cause of underachievement, not the absence of fathers as role models.
