Class And Differential Achievement

Question 1

What are working-class students likely to form from being negatively labelled?

Answer 1

Anti-School subcultures through frustration with a low status.

Question 2

Give a positive of processes inside school.

Answer 2

Useful for explaining day-to-day experiences in school.

Question 3

Give a negative about processes inside school.

Answer 3

They don’t explain how factors outside of school can influence achievement ( eg. Poverty, cultural deprivation)

Question 4

What does the theory of material deprivation say is a big factor in low achievement at school.

Answer 4

Economic Poverty

Question 5

What does the theory of Cultural Deprivation say is a factor for low achievement at school.

Answer 5

Working-class culture/parenting.

Question 6

Name three examples of material deprivation.

Answer 6

• Unable to afford basic materials.
• Lack of nutritious food.
• poor living conditions can lead to absence because of Health problems

Question 7

In what way might cultural deprivation theory be considered ethnocentric?

Answer 7

Foreign students are less likely to achieve as their expectations of school

Question 8

How does Class affect attitudes towards education?

Answer 8

-Sugarman says that pupils from manual backgrounds are used to immediate gratification.

Question 9

What can Negative Labelling lead to?

Answer 9

A self-fulfilling prophecy of failure

Question 10

Name the two forms of speech and who was likely to use them.

Answer 10

Restricted Code - Working Class

Elaborate Code - Middle Class

Question 11

Give two problems with Bernstein’s theory.

Answer 11

• variations within the middle/ working classes.

- some sociologists have developed his ideas to say working-class speech patterns are inferior.