🔥🔴✅☑️✅🔸10 Mark -class/Norms and values

Question 1

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
Describe one aspect that influences class culture

Answer 1

Mealtimes
-middle classes eat dinner in the evening, sitting down together to share a family meal
-working class mealtimes are earlier to coincide with the end of working day for manual labourers
(Also have meals In front of tv)

Question 2

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
Why is the role of the family crucial for class?

Answer 2

Vital for passing in cultural/economic capital from one generation to the next

Question 3

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
What did Reay (1998) state?

Answer 3

• showed MC mothers had more influence on child’s schooling than WC
• WC had less time to devote to children as had to balance triple shift
• lacked confidence and understanding of school system
• many WC mothers had negative schooling experiences themselves :: difficult to assist child’s educational career

Question 4

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
What did Carter and Coleman (2006) state (stats)

Answer 4

• research on planned teenage pregnancy

- 10x higher risk for a WC girl with unskilled background compared to professional background

Question 5

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
How many interviews did carter and Coleman conduct?
What did they find?

Answer 5

41 interviews
Found many spoke of norm of settling down early
-most of their mothers were full time mothers (many were teenage)
-family background and poverty played major part in decision to have a baby

Question 6

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (the family) 
Why did the teenage mothers in carter and Coleman’s study want children?

Answer 6

Believed baby would give them new identity and purpose

Only a ministry regretted their decision contrary to media image

Question 7

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education) 
What is the main influence education has on social class identity?

Answer 7

• The type of school a person attends
• those in private schools are surrounded by cultural signals showing elevated class position
• even Influences students with full scholarships

Question 8

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education)
List informal factors in schools showing social class

Answer 8

Crest of school
Sports played
School trips available

Question 9

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education)
name a formal factor in school affecting social class

Answer 9

Lessons
E.g a student receiving weekly late lessons, a subject high in cultural capital will have a different understanding of society than a student on a vocational course with less cultural capital

Question 10

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education)
What does Power et al (2003) state about links

Answer 10

Shows close relationship between children from MC, achievement at the top public schools and gaining places at elite universities

Question 11

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education)
Why does power et al believe this correlation has arose?

Answer 11

Schools actively encourage applications by Mc students to elite universities as it’s a measure of success

Question 12

Explain how two agents of socialisation influence class culture (education)
What does Bourdieu (1990) state?

Answer 12

Middle class students going to university is like being a ‘fish in water’ compared with the working class experience of university which is isolating