Social Class and Education Flashcards
What are the 3 outside factors of social class and education?
- Cultural deprivation can lead to working class children underperforming in education due to having different norms and values
- Material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education
- Cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital
Who argues that cultural deprivation can lead to working class children underperforming in education due to having different norms and values?
Feinstein
What does Feinstein argue?
That working class parents lack of interest was the main reason children did not achieve
What is used as AO3 for the argument “cultural deprivation can lead to working class children underperforming in education due to having different norms and values”
Davis and Moore
What does Davis and Moore argue?
That the education system helps to allocate people to appropriate job and career roles
Who can be used to say that material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education?
Smith and Noble
Diane Reay
What is material deprivation?
Material deprivation is the idea that working class children fail because of a lack of financial resources such as living in poverty, poor housing, poor diet etc
What do smith and noble argue?
List a number of ‘barriers to learning’ resulting from material deprivation including not have a computer, desk, books etc
What did Diane Reay find?
Showed how working class pupils are more likely to attend local universities to save money
What can be used for AO3 for the argument material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education?
Covid stats
Postmodernist Leotard
Who argues that cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital
Bourdieu
What does Bourdieu argue?
That it is not only money that gives the wealthy power, but cultural assets too
What did Alice Sullivan do?
Carried out a survey on 16 year olds to explore the impact of cultural capital on children’s educational achievements. She based social class on the highest status job of their parents and parent’s cultural capital on their qualifications. Cultural capital of children was based on; books they read, tv programmes they watched, etc
What is used as AO3 for the argument “cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital”?
DfE stats showing that w/c girls outperform w/c boys
What are the 2 inside factors of social class and education?
- Labelling: interactionists argue working class students are labelled differently within the education system
- Working class youths resist failure and the middle class values of the school by forming anti-school subcultures
Who argues that working class students are labelled differently within the education system?
Becker
What did Dunne and Gazely find?
That working class students were seen to be more disruptive, lack parental support and motivation and be placed into bottom sets. This led to teachers having lower expectations of them and entering them for foundation papers
What is used as AO3 for the argument “interactionists argue working class students are labelled differently within the education system”?
Functionalist Parsons - education is meritocratic
Who argues that working class youths resist failure and the middle class values of school by forming anti school subcultures?
Willis
What can be used as AO3 for the argument “working class youths resist failure and the middle class values of the school by forming assc’s ?
Dfe stsrs showing that boys in receipt of FSM are twice as likely to be excluded from school than boys not in receipt of FSM
