Class and education

Question 1

Material deprivation

Answer 1

students lack the money to have the best chance of succeeding as they can’t afford the extras

Question 2

Cultural deprivation

Answer 2

students lack the knowledge and skills, parents can’t help with homework

Question 3

Immediate gratification

Answer 3

working class, I want it now prize

Question 4

deferred gratification

Answer 4

Waiting for rewards like they have waited for their result

Question 5

Bernstein

Answer 5

Elaborate and restricted code

Question 6

Douglas

Answer 6

lower working-class peoples are less likely to stay on in school. Poor children are more likely to come from a big family attend poorer schools and be less healthy.

Question 7

Douglas, research

Answer 7

Studied 5363, children 4-16 years old and divided into groups on ability, blames primary socialisation

Question 8

Bourdieu

Answer 8

working class failure is because of the education system, (work was purely theoretical)

Question 9

Raey

Answer 9

The amount of cultural capital possessed by middle-class parents means the child succeeds . Study 33 mothers into schools which was not very diverse.

Question 10

Ball, Bowe and Gerwitz

Answer 10

bums on seats, schools become competitors, examine the effects of parental choice. Privilege, semiskilled, and disconnected choosers about schools.

Question 11

howard

Answer 11

Poor diet can lead to poor results

Question 12

Raey

Answer 12

working-class more likely to go to local uni

Question 13

Sugar man

Answer 13

fatalistic (accepting)
Present time orientated
Immediate gratification
Collectivism (in a group)

Question 14

Keddie

Answer 14

cultural deprivation is a myth, its victim blaming, education is middle-class, dominated

Question 15

Criticisms of class

Answer 15

Long work hours so parents can’t make parents evening
Could be intimidated by schools

Question 16

Becker

Answer 16

teachers label peoples which end up having an outcome

Question 17

Habitus

Answer 17

refer to learned, taking for granted way of thinking

Question 18

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 18

Forming expectations of yourself and telling people and then those expectations come true 

Question 19

Subcultures

Answer 19

A group broken away from the main group to rebel

Question 20

Streaming/setting

Answer 20

Streaming involves separating children into different ability groups or classes called ‘streams’. Each ability group is then taught separately from the others for all subjects. Studies show that self-fulfilling prophecy is particularly likely to occur when children are streamed.