Ethnicity - Material Deprivation

Question 1

Material deprivation

Answer 1

Material deprivation explanations see educational failure resulting from factors such as sub standard housing and low income
-> ethnic minorities more likely to face these problems.

Question 2

Material deprivation - Statistics

Answer 2

G Palmer - Almost half of all ethnic minority children live in low-income households in contrast to a quarter of white children

-EM 2x likely to be unemployed compared to whites.

Question 3

Material deprivation - Reasoning

Answer 3

EM at greater risk of material deprivation:

• many live in economically depressed areas with high unemployment and low wage rates.
• a lack of language skills and - foreign qualifications not recognised by UK employers. -> affects recent arrived foreign groups.

Question 4

Material deprivation - importance and relation

Answer 4

-Must look at different class positions of ethnic groups (WC,MC)
when comparing achievement.
-However material deprivation and social class factors do not completely override the influence of ethnicity -> Modood(S) found effects of low-income affect white pupils worse than others -> Material deprivation less important than cultural factors?