Social Class

Question 1

What is cultural Deprivation?

Answer 1

deficiencies in home and family backgrounds, such as inadequate socialisation, inadequate language skills and inappropriate attitudes and value.

Question 2

What is Material Deprevation?

Answer 2

the inability to afford basic resources, such as adequate housing, food and heating

Question 3

What is labelling?

Answer 3

To label someone is to attach a meaning or definition to them. Teachers will label students as either smart or dumb.

Question 4

What is the self fulfilling prophecy?

Answer 4

When students are given a positive label, they react to it by creating a positive self-concept, which means they are motivated to work hard and improve their grades.

Question 5

What is cultural Capital?

Answer 5

the knowledge, attitudes, values, language, taste and abilities of the middle class.

Question 6

What does Douglas Argue?

Answer 6

. Working class parents place less value on education, they are less ambitions for their children and give them less encouragement to participate in educational activities such as homework

Question 7

What are the 3 socialisation agents of parents

Answer 7

Parenting style, parents educational attitudes and income

Question 8

What does Feinstein argue?

Answer 8

agrees with douglas and middle class parents socialise their children better

Question 9

what does Bernstein & Young argue?

Answer 9

Middle class mothers are more likely to buy educational toys to stimulate cognitive development

Question 10

What does Blackstone & Mortimore argue?

Answer 10

working class parents are less likely to show up to parents evenings due to their unsociable hours or they don’t like middle class habitus

Question 11

What is a working class subculture?

Answer 11

a group whos attitudes and values differ from those of the main stream culture

Question 12

What are sugarmanns 4 barriers?

Answer 12

Present time orientation
Immediate gratification
collectivism
fatalism

Question 13

what does keddie argue?

Answer 13

cultural deprevation is a myth and you cannot be deprived of your own culture. Working class culture is different and they fail due to an education system with mainly middle class values.

Question 14

What does Bull argue?

Answer 14

Lack of financial support means children miss out on opportunity to help their education

Question 15

What does Tanner et al argue?

Answer 15

cost of schooling places burden on working class families, working class children get hand me downs and for this they are bullied or stigmatized by peers

Question 16

what do Mortimore & Whitty argue?

Answer 16

Material inequalities have the greatest affect on achivment

Question 17

What does Robbinson argue?

Answer 17

tackling child poverty would be the most effectvie way to boost achivement

Question 18

What does Bourdieu Argue?

Answer 18

material and cultural factors both have an equal affect and mix together, middle class with cultural capital are better equipped to meet demands of school curiculum

Question 19

What does Sullivan Argue?

Answer 19

Did survey with pupils on cultural capital, middle class mainly had better cultural capital however some working class had same cultural capital but seemed to be underachieving

Question 20

What does Becker Argue?

Answer 20

teachers label pupils on their ability to fit the ideal pupil

Question 21

What dies ray rist argue?

Answer 21

Kindergarden study, teahcer seated children based off of class background, put fast learners at the front of the class who were mainly middle class and the slower working class ones at the back giving them no help

Question 22

What does Rosenthal & Jacobsen argue?

Answer 22

Fabricated IQ Tests caused teachers to belive some students were gifted, teachers gave these students much more help