social class and education external factors

Question 1

Bernstein language deprivation

Answer 1

speech codes:
- MC uses a more analytic and descriptive language clade called the elaborated code. this benefits them one Education as its the language used to school and in exams.

• WC uses a more restricted code that includes shorter sentences and one word to describe things. this disadvantages kid as this aren’t favored ins schools can make teachers label them negatively

Question 2

criticism of Bernstein

Answer 2

• Bernstein argues that working-class people fail, not because they are culturally deprived but schools fail to teach them the elaborated code needed to succeed

Question 3

Feinstein parental education

Answer 3

parents education most important factor affecting achievement

Question 4

Douglas parental attitudes

Answer 4

working-class parents place less value on education

Question 5

barry sugarman subcultures

Answer 5

working-class subcultures four key elements that barriers educational achievement:

• immediate gratification
• fatalism
• collectivism
• present time orientation

Question 6

Berstein and young parental use of income

Answer 6

middle-class mothers more likely to buy educational toys, books and activities that encourage reading skills and intellectual thinking

Question 7

Keddie criticism of cultural deprivation theory

Answer 7

sees cultural deprivation as a myth and sees it as a victim-blaming explain
a child cannot be deprived of its own cultural working-class kids are culturally different not deprived

Question 8

Blackstone and Mortimer criticism of WC parents having a class interest in Education

Answer 8

they attend fewer parents evening, not because of lack of interest but work longer or less regulated hours

Question 9

Troyner and Williams criticism of language

Answer 9

teachers have a speech hierarchy label middle-class speech highest followed by working class

Question 10

Howard on material dep

Answer 10

Children from poorer families will have a poorer diet and have less vitamin intake

Question 11

Wilkinson material dep

Answer 11

The lower the class the more likely children are to have hyperactivity abs mental illnesses

Question 12

Bull material dep

Answer 12

“The cost of free schooling” hidden costs such as textbooks uniform and school trips lead to inequalities

Question 13

statistic linking poverty and under-achievemnt

Answer 13

in 2013 barely 1/4 of children who are eligible for free school meals achiever more than 5 GSEs A* to C

Question 14

truancy and underachievemnt

Answer 14

exclustiona d truancy more likely to happen to children who come from pooerer families

a third of all persitant truants leave school with no qualifications

Question 15

what % of schools that are failing are in a depreived areas?

Answer 15

90%

Question 16

callendar and jackson on the fear of debt

Answer 16

young people from working class backgroudns ahve been found to avoid wanting to go to university beuase they are more debt advserse and onyl see the cost o funi rather than the benefit

debt adverse students 5x more likely to avoid applying to uni

2012 after fees were increased to 9 grand application of working class students dropped by 9%

Question 17

what % of uni students come from working class backgrounds?

Answer 17

only 30% despite the gorup accounting for 50% of the population

Question 18

reay on choice of university

Answer 18

even is working class students decide to go to university they are more likely to cooose local ones wehre they can save on travel costs and live at hme which lowers ability to go to high acheving universities

Question 19

what is the drop out rate of London met compared to Oxford

Answer 19

london met have a drop out rate of 16% wehere they have a laregely working class intake

whereas oxfrd has a 1.5% drop out rate with nearly half of all students coming from private schoool

Question 20

cultural capital

Answer 20

bourdeiu uses term cultrual capital to refer to the knowledge, attitudes values and languages of the working class

trhough socilisation and havung mre money middel class children have ability to grasp and express abstract ideas and more likley to develp intellectual interest

through things like going to museums

Question 21

econmic capital

Answer 21

wealthy parents can convert their economic capital into education capital by:

sending children to private school or pay for extra turition

leech and campos found that middle class parents have ability to move house ot get in catchment area of good schools