Gender Educational Attainment Outside Factors: Primary Socialisation

Question 1

What type of youth culture are girls more likely to have?

Answer 1

Bedroom culture

Question 2

What is bedroom culture?

Answer 2

Having all of your communication with friends and what you talk about being able to be based in the bedroom

Question 3

Who created the concept of bedroom culture?

Answer 3

McRobbie and Garber

Question 4

What must you not do when talking about bedroom culture when linking it to educational attainment? Why?

Answer 4

Say that McRobbie and Garber argued it helped educational attainment. They never mention education themselves.

Question 5

How can bedroom culture explain better educational attainment in terms of time spent in their bedroom?

Answer 5

They are more likely to have time to focus on homework or revision

Question 6

How can bedroom culture explain better educational attainment in terms of talking with their friends?

Answer 6

Even if they are not using the elaborated code with their friends, they are still developing their communication skills

Question 7

Which gender is more likely to have a bedroom culture?

Answer 7

Girls

Question 8

What will boys be more likely to have their youth cultures based around?

Answer 8

Outside activities like sports

Question 9

Why will boys therefore not be benefitted from their form of youth culture?

Answer 9

Because they are more likely to spend time outside instead of revising