Education- Class differences Flashcards

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who argues parents own education is most important factor effecting childrens achievement

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Feinstein (2008)

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what is a strength/limitation of Feinstein

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s: as parents with higher education have more to teach their child
w: doesnt account for private study students do

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what are the four mindsets Sugarman (1970) discovers and what are they

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fatalism- belief whatever will be will be
collectivism- value being part of group more than education
immediate gratification- seeking pleasure rather than making sacrifices to get rewards
presentative orientation- seeing present as more important than future

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what are 3 types of cultural deprivation

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language
parental support (Douglas)
parental education (Feinstein)

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who found working class parents placed less value on education meaning less encouragement

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Douglas (1964)

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what are 4 types of material deprivation

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problems with housing
diet/health
cost of education
university

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what % of students at uni are working class

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30%

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in 2010, what % of young people from more affluent households and poorer households went to uni

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57% from affluent
19% form poorer

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what is culture capital and who used it

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Bordieu (1984) used it to refer to knowledge, attitude, values, language, tastes and abilities of MC and cultural and material factors are interrelated

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who interviewed 60 high school teachers and found they judge pupils according to how well they fitted the image of an ideal pupil

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Howard Becker (1971)

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who found notions of ideal pupil was dependant on class and that in WC schools the ideal pupil was seen as quiet passive and obedient whereas in MC schools they were seen to be defined by their personality and ability

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Amelia Hempel-Jorgensen

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what is the self-fulfilling prophecy

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the belief a prediction comes true simply by the virtue of it being made

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what test was done by who as a study of the self fulfilling prophecy

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Rosenthal and Jacobson (1968) told students they had a test to identify which students would ‘spurt’ ahead, when in reality it was a normal IQ test. They told a random 20 students they had the most potential and it was found almost 50% did in fact make significant progress

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what is streaming

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separating children into different ability groups

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how does streaming link to Beckers’ study

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found teachers dont usually see WC students as ideal pupil so more likely to stream them into lower sets as they label them as not being as able as MC students

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16
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what is the A-C economy

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it is the finding by Youell and Gillborn (2001) that publishing league tables creates this economy that schools focus time, effort and resources into pupils who have the ability to get 5 Cs or better

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who created the concepts of differentiation

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Colin Lacey

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what are the concepts of differentiation

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differentiation- teachers categorising pupils according to how they perceive their ability, attitude and/or behaviour
polarisation- pupils response to streaming by moving toward one of two opposite poles

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what did Lacey find about boys in subcultures

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streaming polarised them into pro-school or anti-school subcultures

20
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what is a habitus

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a social class dispositions

21
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what did Louise Archer (2010) find about WC pupils

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they felt if they were to succeed in education they needed to change how they talked and presented themselves

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what are ‘Nike identities’

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this refers to how WC pupils seek alternative ways of seeking self-worth, status and value, achieving this through branded clothing like nike

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Strengths/limitations of Archers’ 2010 study on symbolic capital

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S- helps us understand schools are MC environment and create clash of cultures
- strongly supported by Bordieu’s study of culture capital
W- too deterministic as it implies all WC students struggle in MC env
- ignores facts many schools in WC areas adapt to dominant culture