EXTERNAL Ethnic Differences Flashcards
Moynihan (1965)
Black families headed by lone mother - children deprived from adequate care: struggle from the male breadwinner.
Fathers absence = lack of role model of male achievement.
Murray (1984)
Lone parent lack a male role model = lead to the underachievement of some minorities.
Sewell (2009)
Not the absence of the of fathers as role model that leads to black boys underachieving.
IT IS a lack of fatherly nurturing or ‘tough love’ = black boys finding it hard to overcome emotional and behavioural difficulties of adolescence
What does Gillborn (2008) state?
It’s not peer pressure but institutional racism = large number of failure of black boys
What does Lupton (2004) say?
Asian
Audit authorities in Asian families similar to school. Respect and behaviour was expected from children = supportive of school policies.
Evans (2006)
Street culture
Street culture of white w/c areas is brutal = school is about power, intimidation and disruption
= hard for success
Criticism of CD theory - ethnic
Driver (1977)
CD ignores possible effects:
Black Caribbean family: provides girls with a positive role model of strong independent women = why black girls are more successful than black boys
Palmer (2012)
Almost half of EM’s children live in low-income houses - against a quarter white
EM’s twice as likely to be unemployed than whites
EM’s three times more likely to be homeless
Rex (1986)
Racial discrimination leads to social exclusion = more likely to be forced into substandard accommodation than white peoples of same class
2011 study of Indian and Chinese achievement
86% of Chinese and Indian pupils who receives FSM got 5 or more GCSEs whereas only 65% of white pupils who DIDNT recurve FSM’s got 5 or more GCSE’s
Wood et al
1,000 job vacancies -
1 out of 16 EM’s got interview
1 out of 9 white got interview
