Middle and upper class advantage in education

Question 1

Bourdieu
What identity does education social students into?
What do upper classes have that advantages to them?
Examples? (What can they do with the knowledge they have?)
What does this mean education reproduces?

Answer 1

Education socialises students into middle class identities
Upper classes have the cultural capital to succeed in education e.g. similar environment at home and school, levels of language, interests and knowledge they can apply to lessons
This means that inequalities are reproduced through education

Question 2

Becker
What are middle class students labelled as?
Why (2)
What does this mean teachers do? compared to?
What does this lead middle class students to do?

Answer 2

Middle class pupils are labelled as the 'ideal pupil' 
Through smart uniforms and the knowledge they have through home which they can contribute in lessons, teachers label them more positively than working class students leading to higher attainment in education.

Question 3

Scott
What is the upper class able to pay for?
What are the advantages of this type of education?
what does this mean for students?

Answer 3

The upper class are able to pay for their children to attend private schools which offers more support as class sizes are smaller meaning that individual support to students can be given, increasing their chances of higher attainment

Question 4

Sutton Trust
%?
Which school? 
What two schools were students accepted at?
Year

Answer 4

50% of students who attended the elite Westminister schools were accepted at Oxford or Cambrige in 2007