✅Ethnicity 15 Marker Flashcards
What is the first reason?
Cultural deprivation
What is David Mayhans first argument?
- black families headed by lone mother
- 90% SPF headed by women
- deprived adequate care due to low income
- deceasing educational attainment
What is David mayhans second argument
Absence of male breadwinner causes a lack of role model for children
Substandard socialisation
Affecting attainment
What does Charles Murray state?
Lack of role model in SPF leads to underachievement in Ethnic minorities
What did Anthony Flew (1984) find? (+stats)
Educational failure stems from external factors e.g cultural deprivation
40% EM believe they earn less based on their ethnicity
Pakistani and Bangladeshi citizens earn £9,000 less than average white household
What’s the harm of less cultural capital
Less cultural capital means higher material deprivation, causing less opportunity of higher educational attainment and an increase in crime
Stat on EM and crime
Afro Caribbean form 2.5% of the population yet form 25% of prison population
What is the second reason?
Racism in wider society
What does mason state about racism?
“Discrimination is a continuing and persistent feature of experience of Britain’s EM citizens”
What did John Dex find?
Racial discrimination causes social exclusion worsening poverty faced by EM
Pakistani fact
Pakistanis are 3x as likely than white to be in the poorest 1/5 of the population
What impact does poverty have?
EM students have increased material deprivation and :: don’t have equipment textbooks etc that aids others (David bulls cost of free schooling)
What did Jenny Bourne find?
Schools negativity label black boys as a threats, increasing exclusions
What did Peter foster (1990) find?
Negative stereotype of EM place them in lower sets and increase rates of exclusion as they become self fulfilling prophesies
Final sentence
Decrease in streams and increase in exclusion creates a decrease in educational performance
