FAMILY STRUCTURE AND PARENTAL SUPPORT- CD Flashcards
Moynihan (1965)
a. Because many black families are matriarchal, the children are deprived of adequate care because she has to struggle financially in the absence of a male breadwinner
b. Cultural deprivation is a cycle
Murray (New Right; 1984)
a. A high rate of lone parenthood and a lack of male role models leads to the underachievement of some minorities
Pryce (1979) Family Structure contributes to Blacks’ Underachievement
a. Comparison of black and Asian pupils in Britain
b. Asians are higher achievers as their culture is more resistant to racism and gives them a greater sense of self-worth
c. Black Caribbean culture is less cohesive and less resistant to racism
d. Pryce argues that the difference is the result of the different impact of colonialism on the two groups- for blacks, slavery was culturally devastating due to them losing their language, religion and entire family system
e. Asian families didn’t suffer the same way
Sewell (2009): Fathers, gangs and culture
a. Disagrees with with Murray
b. Sewell sees the problem as a lack of fatherly nurturing, which results in black boys finding it hard to overcome the emotional and behavioural difficulties of adolescence
In the absence of a nurturing father, what do street gangs offer boys?
a. They offer loyalty and love.
b. They offer an anti-school black masculinity
c. Arnot (2004): ‘ghetto superstar… rap lyrics’
What was the greatest barrier to success for the academically successful boys that Sewell interviewed?
Pressure from other boys, ‘selling out’ to the white establishment
Sewell’s view on Indian and Chinese pupils:
a. Indian and Chinese pupils benefit from supportive families that have an ‘Asian work ethnic’
Lupton (2004)
a. Adult authority in Asian families is similar to the model that operates in schools
McCulloch (2014) survey of 16,000 pupils:
Ethnic minority pupils are more likely to want to go to univeristy than their white peers
Lupton’s study of 4 mainly working-class schools:
a. Higher levels of misbehaviour reported in the white working-class schools, despite the fact that they had fewer student on FSM
b. Teachers blamed this on lower levels of parental support
c. Black parents: see education as a ‘way up in society’
Evans (2005)
a. Street culture in white working-class areas can be brutal
b. School can become a place where the power games that young people engage in outside of school are played out again, bringing disruption
