Class

Question 1

How is class defined in the education system

Answer 1

Wether a student eats free school meals

Question 2

What percent more of students from middle class backgrounds achieved AS or A-levels vs working class

Answer 2

36%

Question 3

Bourdieu

Answer 3

Middle class habitus which describes the attitudes and behaviours related by MC teachers in schools.
Cultural capital describes the knowledge and style of speech rewarded within the education system.

Question 4

Forsythe and Furlong (2003)

Answer 4

The cost of higher education and the prospect of debt put off bright WC students

Question 5

Becker (Interactionism)

Answer 5

Found teachers stereotyped students. Middle class students were seen as the ‘ideal’ student while the working class were seen as the furthest from this

Question 6

Ball

Answer 6

Parental attitudes coupled with streaming lead to lower attainment for the WC and ethnic students

Question 7

Charles Murray

Answer 7

Lack of father figures has led to boys doing worse in school due to inferior socialisation

Question 8

Bernstein

Answer 8

Working class parents socialise their kids into a restricted code vs MC socialise into an elaborated

Question 9

Barry Sugarman

Answer 9

WC parents socialise their children unto immediate gratification whilst the MC teach deferred gratification

Question 10

Douglas

Answer 10

Wc parents socialise their children into not believing in the education system

Question 11

Hargreaves

Answer 11

MC children are given a ‘halo’ through the education system

Question 12

Wikely - material deprivation

Answer 12

WC students don’t get to go on school trips or partake in non-school uniform

Question 13

Archer - clothing

Answer 13

WC students are unable to afford new clothes leading to bullying meaning the students avoid school or form anti-school subcultures

Question 14

State an example of legislation put in place to support WC students

Answer 14

Free school meals