Social Class and Education

Question 1

What are the 3 outside factors of social class and education?

Answer 1

1. Cultural deprivation can lead to working class children underperforming in education due to having different norms and values
2. Material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education
3. Cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital

Question 2

Who argues that cultural deprivation can lead to working class children underperforming in education due to having different norms and values?

Answer 2

Feinstein

Question 3

What does Feinstein argue?

Answer 3

That working class parents lack of interest was the main reason children did not achieve

Question 4

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”

Answer 4

Davis and Moore

Question 5

What does Davis and Moore argue?

Answer 5

That the education system helps to allocate people to appropriate job and career roles

Question 6

Who can be used to say that material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education?

Answer 6

Smith and Noble

Diane Reay

Question 7

What is material deprivation?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What do smith and noble argue?

Answer 8

List a number of ‘barriers to learning’ resulting from material deprivation including not have a computer, desk, books etc

Question 9

What did Diane Reay find?

Answer 9

Showed how working class pupils are more likely to attend local universities to save money

Question 10

What can be used for AO3 for the argument material deprivation highlights the financial inequalities for working class students in education?

Answer 10

Covid stats

Postmodernist Leotard

Question 11

Who argues that cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital

Answer 11

Bourdieu

Question 12

What does Bourdieu argue?

Answer 12

That it is not only money that gives the wealthy power, but cultural assets too

Question 13

What did Alice Sullivan do?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is used as AO3 for the argument “cultural capital shows how middle class students have an advantage in education due to cultural capital”?

Answer 14

DfE stats showing that w/c girls outperform w/c boys

Question 15

What are the 2 inside factors of social class and education?

Answer 15

1. Labelling: interactionists argue working class students are labelled differently within the education system
2. Working class youths resist failure and the middle class values of the school by forming anti-school subcultures

Question 16

Who argues that working class students are labelled differently within the education system?

Answer 16

Becker

Question 17

What did Dunne and Gazely find?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

What is used as AO3 for the argument “interactionists argue working class students are labelled differently within the education system”?

Answer 18

Functionalist Parsons - education is meritocratic

Question 19

Who argues that working class youths resist failure and the middle class values of school by forming anti school subcultures?

Answer 19

Willis

Question 20

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 ?

Answer 20

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