Class difference in education evaluation sociologists (AO3)

Question 1

Keddie (1973)

Answer 1

Myth of cultural deprivation
- Victim - blaming explanation
- A child cannot be deprived of its own culture and argues that working class children are simply culturally different , not culturally deprived

Question 2

Sullivan (2001)

Answer 2

Evaluating culture capital
- Used questionnaires to test students hobbies , language and vocabulary.
- Students who read complex books , watched documentaries are seen to have a high cultural capital

Question 3

Troyna and Williams (1986)

Answer 3

Myth of cultural deprivation
The problem is not the child’s language but the schools attitude towards it . Teachers have a “speech hierarchy “