Unit 3 - Section B: Differential Achievement - Social Class - THEORETICAL EXPLANATION - New Right - Outside: Innate

Question 1

Eysenck

Answer 1

IQ is largely inherited, between 60-80% of intelligence is genetically based. ‘What children do outside of school is proportional to what they bring into schools in terms of IQ’, class differences in intelligence largely accounts for class differences in educational attainment.

Question 2

Hernstein and Jensen

Answer 2

60-80% of intelligence is genetically based, class differences largely account for class differences in educational attainment.