Class Flashcards
Howard
MATERIAL DEPRIVATION
Children from poor families have poor diets lacking nutrients
- Free school meals
Bernstein
CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
Language codes- restricted and elaborated
- Keddie- victim blaming (blames wc language)
Becker
INTERNAL
Teachers label students leading to self fulfilling prophecy
-Fuller- study into black girls in London- rejected labels
Douglas
CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
Wc parents less value on education
- Keddie- victim blaming
Sugarman
CULTURAL DEPRIVATION
Wc have different culture
4 elements
1. Fatalism
2. Collectivism
3. Immediate gratification
4. Present time orientation
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Tanner
MATERIAL DEPRIVATION
Cost of transport, books, computers, uniform and equipment can put heavy burden on WC families
- pupil premium
Bourdieu
EXTERNAL
Three interlinked types of capital
- Cultural
- Economic
- Educational
Money leads to experience leads to academic achievement (educational capital)
-Sullivan (2001) cultural capital was only part of the reason for social class differences in educational achievement (access to resources and greater aspirations also had big impact)
Cultural deprivation
Having inferior norms and values, skills and knowledge that make it difficult to access education
Material deprivation
Not having the resources or spaces available to do well in school- linked to poverty
Hargreaves
INTERNAL
Streaming is meant to be based on ability but it’s based on class
Wc from anti school subcultures in response to being labelled a ‘failure’
-Ball- abolishing streaming study- labelling continued- those labelled positively got better exam results
- Functionalists argue that despite this, education system is still meritocratic
Gillborn and Youdell
Educational triage
-Those who will pass anyway
-Those with potential
-Hopeless cases
Produces self fulfilling prophecy and failure
- ## Fuller- reject labels
Habitus
The way people perceive and respond to social world they inhabit
Taken for granted ways of thinking, acting and being shared by WC
Becker
INTERNAL
Ideal pupil
Interviewed 60 Chicago pupils
Teachers judged on how closely students were to ideal pupil
- Fuller- rejection of labels