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6. What is the most important factor in determining educational success?

  • Effort and motivation
  • Intelligence
  • Parental background/class background
  • Hard work

7. What is cultural capital?

  • The ability to learn about other cultures
  • The values, knowledge and skills of all the classes
  • The values, knowledge and skills of the ruling class
  • How educated you are on other cultures

8. What is habitus?

  • Your family life
  • The cultural environment that each class inhabits
  • Your housing arangements
  • The area in which a certain class lives

9. Marxism is said to have a narrow focus as it doesn't look at...

  • how the hidden curriculum influences learning
  • gender and ethnic inequalities
  • class inequalities
  • why working class are more likely to fail at school

10. Which sociologist(s) developed the idea of correspondence theory

  • Bourdieu
  • Bowles and Gintis
  • Althusser
  • Davis and Moore