Education Flashcards
Economic
Money and wealth
Cultural
Beliefs, values, skills
Social
People you know
Symbolic
Status and power
What’s the achievement gap between disadvantaged pupils and other pupils
3.68%
In 2015 how many students eligible for free school meals got at least 5 a* to c gcse compared to other Pupils
36.7% - 64.7%
What’s the reproduction of class inequality
Stuck in a repetition of class
Deprivation theories
Working class pick necessary economic capital views attitudes and support needed to succeed
Who created deprivation theory
Parsons
Adaption
Relationship between system and environment
Goal attainment
Societies need to set goals to meet eg government
Integration
Adjusting and defying relationships to reduce conflict
Pattern maintenance
Maintaining values eg religion and teachers rights
Material deprivation
Lacking the things we need
Hidden costs of free schooling
Bull (1980)
How many children in uk live in poverty
4.1 million
90% of failing schools located in deprived areas
Webb 2008
Financial burden on low income families often leads to children being stigmatised
Tanner 2003
Costs of higher education prevents working class children going to university
Conner (2001) and forthye and furlang 2003
Children from poorer homes have a lower intake of vitamins and minerals
Howard 2001
Marxists
Don’t think policies can solve problems, capitalism responsible for inequalities
- abolishment of capitalism
Solutions …
Only selected when it follows governments political agenda
