Cultural factors-CLASS Flashcards
What is Cultural Deprivation?
Lacking the ‘right’ norms and value for educational success.
Who is Dougles what did he say the reason WC students underachieve is?
-He said that the main reason why WC students underachieve is due to the lack of parental interest.
-He did a longitudnal study on 5000+ brtish kids
-MC parents expressed more interest due to there frequent attendance to schools to speak about childs progress.
>these children were more likely to do school pass the minimum age due to there parents encouragement.
>he found that this became important as a spur to high attainment as the child grew older.
What is the AO3 for Dougles Research
-It was based off attendance to parents evening so there are several reasons why WC parents couldnt attend
>had to work shifts
>uncomfortable in the MC environment
>have other kids
Who did a recent study about Parental Education?
Feinstein,said that the parents education has a major effect on the childs education
>can give advantage onto how they are socialised.
>also effects the teaching styles:WC=harsh,inconsistant, MC-high expectations,consistant discipline
What is a AO3 of Feinsteins study?
Compensatory education programmes exist
>e.g SURE START,aim to help those culturally deprived by impoving skills and help to transmit value.
What does Sugerman Argue?
He argues that attitude of WC and MC subcultures is directly linked to educational acheivement but this is a result of manual/non-manual labour.
What is the AO2 for MC of Sugerman’s Argument?
MC occupations provide oppotunities for continuous advancement up the career ladder.
They would have deffered Gratification-planning for the future
What is the AO2 for WC of Sugerman’s Argument?
WC occupation reaches full earning capacity.
They would have immediate gratification-the attitude of future planning was not fostered.
As the result on a questionaire from 540 male students what were the 4 values Sugerman came up with?
-TIME ORIENTATION,living now
-ATTITUDE TOWARDS GRATIFICATION,immediate gratification(immediate pleasure)
-COLLECTIVISM VS INDIVIDUALISM,success acheived by collective a
-ATTITUDES TOWARDS LUCK,(fatalism)
What is the Ao3 for Sugerman’s Study?
-It was questionaire data so it didnt neccessarily give accurate answers
-lacks representivity of femal students
-Postmodernists would say that there is no longer a cut differennce of attitudes between WC and MC
What types of language does Bernstein say WC have?
Restricted code=short,grammatically simple and often unfinished sentences
-it is context bound.
What type of language does Berstein say MC have?
Elaborated code=verbalises many of the meaning,provides explanation and is universalistic
What was Bernsteins research?
He had 2 5 year old boys describe what is happening in 4 photos.
What did Berstein find about the MC child?
He did better.Berstein argues that he did better as the formal education is conducted in terms of elaborated code.
What is the AO3 of Bernstein?
-The samples size is too small,
it was only done on 5 yr old boys.
-but what is good is that he takes into consideration that school also influences children as they are failing to teach them elaborated code.
