WORKING-CLASS IDENTITY AND EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS Flashcards
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Ingram’s (2009) study of two groups of working-class Catholic boys:
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a. One group passed their 11+ and made it into the grammar school, whereas the other group had failed and gone to a local secondary.
b. Ingram found that having a working-class identity was inseparable from belonging to a working-class locality
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What do working-class communities place great emphasis on?
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Conformity, the boys expressed a pressure to fit in and balance their poor neighbourhood to their middle-class hibitus of a grammar school