Education and Social Policies

Question 1

What are social policies?

Answer 1

Actions taken by the government to deal with issues in society

Question 2

What can the issues social policies deal with be?

Answer 2

Education

The family

Crime

Health

Transport

Defence

Poverty etc

Question 3

When was education made compulsory?

Answer 3

Made compulsory for all children up to the age of 10 in 1880

Question 4

What did the education act of 1944 introduce?

Answer 4

Introduced tripartite system of three secondary schools based on ability

Question 5

What determined what school children attended?

Answer 5

An 11+ test determined the school a child attended

Question 6

What were the three types of secondary schools?

Answer 6

Grammer school (passed 11+) - academic O/A levels

Secondary modern (failed 11+) - no exams

Technical school (failed 11+)

Question 7

What is cultural capital?

Answer 7

The knowledge, language, manners, attitudes, values and lifestyles possessed by the middle class and passed onto their children through primary socialisation to help them succeed in a middle class habitus of education

Question 8

Why might cultural capital put the middle class at an advantage?

Answer 8

The middle class already have the habitus of education and will have learnt this habitus though primary socialisation and therefore will do better in education