Social Class & Education Flashcards
4 findings of Sugarman’s study on the attitudes of W/C boys
1) Collectivism
2) Instant gratification
3) Present-time orientation
4) Fatalism
Reay interviewed 33 middle and working class mothers, what were her 2 findings?
Middle class mothers have more: 1) cultural capital (knowledge)
2) material capital (time to spend with kids)
Outline 3 characteristics of the ‘restricted language code’
1) Limited vocabulary
2) Understood mainly by locals
3) Spoken by w/c
Outline Hyman’s 2 findings in his social class attitudes research
1) W/C place low value on education
2) W/C are fatalistic towards higher education
What did Douglas believe to be the most important factor to educational achievement?
Parental interest
4 critiques of Sugarman’s study of 500 w/c boys
1) Gender blind
2) Impositional bias
3) Interviewer bias
4) W/C boys weren’t fatalistic but realistic
2 critiques of Bernstein’s ‘language codes’
1) Elaborated and restricted codes are culturally different - Labov
2) Too generalised, not all classes speak a specific code - Rosen
Outline 3 characteristics of the ‘elaborated language code’
1) Articulate + detailed
2) Large vocabulary
3) Spoken by r/c
Outline 3 findings of Douglas’ parental interest research
1) M/C parents showed most parental interest
2) M/C parents have material capital as well as cultural capital
3) W/C students therefore culturally deprived
2 negative criticisms of Douglas’s parental interest research
1) W/C parents unable to go to parents evening due to working patterns
2) Douglas measures parental interest by money invested
7 ways in which social class affects educational attainment
1) Parental interest
2) Type of school
3) Fatalism
4) Instant gratification
5) Language codes
6) Lack of positive role models
7) Material deprivation
