SY4 - Class Inequalities

Question 0

Bordieu.

Answer 0

Cultural capital. Working class students are at a disadvantage. Their home life, speech patterns, books and cultural products in middle class homes echoes that in schools.

Question 1

Illich (Marxist).

Answer 1

The hidden curriculum. Argues that education serves the purposes of the ruling class. Echoes the work place. Helps to legitimise wage inequality.

Question 2

Frobel (1980).

Answer 2

Businesses moving from advanced industrial nations to the developing world. Developing nations are turned into industrial slums and low wage labour ghettoes.

Question 3

Klein (2001).

Answer 3

To lure TNCs into their EPZs, the governments of developing countries offer tax breaks, lacks health and safety regulations, low minimum wage and a military wing to crush labour unrest.

Question 4

Legrain.

Answer 4

WTO. ‘Race to the bottom’ - destroying democracy harms the poor and exacerbates class inequality.

Question 5

Ritzer.

Answer 5

McDonaldisation. Deskilling of labour, simplifying of tasks with technology ensure low levels of skill are required and wages can be kept low.

Question 6

Pakko and Pollard (2003).

Answer 6

From the average wage it takes 15 minutes to earn a Big Mac in the UK, but 112 minutes to buy one in The Philippenes.

Question 7

Hoselitz.

Answer 7

A meritocratic education system will spread universalism and individualism by achievement measured by hard work, etc.