Topic 3 Ethnic Minorities (External Factors)

Question 1

What are the 3 main aspects of cultural deprivation for ethnic minorities

Answer 1

• Intellectual and linguistic skills
• Attitudes and values
• Family structure and parental support

Question 2

Explain linguistic skills for ethnic minorities (theorists)

Answer 2

Bereiter and Englemann - believe the language spoken by ethnic minorities is inadequate for education

Question 3

Evaluate, intellectual and linguistic, skills for ethnic minorities

Answer 3

Gillborn and Mirza reject Berieter and Englemann as they found Indian students do well despite not having English as their first language.

Question 4

Explain attitudes and values in relation to ethnic minorities

Answer 4

CD theorist blame a lack of motivation as a major cause for ethnic minorities failure

Question 5

Explain family structure and parental support in relation to ethnic minorities. (Theorist)

Answer 5

CD theorists argue ethnic minorities are socialised poorly due to dysfunction families.

Moynihan says many black families are headed by a lone mother. So they struggle financially and boys don’t have a male role model.

Question 6

AO3 for poor family structure and parental support in ethnic minorities

Answer 6

Gillborn argues it’d not due to poor role models and peer pressure that boys do worse but due to institutional racism.

Question 7

Explain how asian families differ from different ethnic minorities (theorist)

Answer 7

Sewell - believes Asians place higher emphasis on education having an ‘asian work ethic’

Question 8

Explain how ethnic minorities differ from white working class (theorist)

Answer 8

Lupton - Ethnic minorities are more likely to see education as a ‘way up’

Question 9

Explain how material deprivation effects ethnic minorities (theorist) why?

Answer 9

Palmer - almost half of ethnic minority children live in low income households.

Due to racial discrimination in labour market and housing market

Question 10

AO3 for material deprivation in ethnic minorities (theorist)

Answer 10

Madood found white children were more effected by low income them ethnic minorities

Question 11

Give an example of racism in the wider society. (Theorist)

Answer 11

Wood et al - sent 3 closely matched job applications to 1000 job vacancies, changing the names to be more ‘white’ or from ethnic minorities. Finding ethnic minorities got fewer responses than white applications