Social Class: Outside factors LT1

Question 1

Material deprivation

Answer 1

lack basic necessities due to poverty

Question 2

What material deprivation factors effecting education ?

Answer 2

. Housing
. Diet and health
. Financial support
. University

Question 3

What are the two factors involved in housing ?

Answer 3

. direct
. indirect

Question 4

what direct housing mean ?

Answer 4

overcrowding marked it harder for child to study

Question 5

what indirect housing mean?

Answer 5

Effects on the health and well fare
E.g. mould

Question 6

Who talks about Diet and Health ?

Answer 6

Howard (2001)

Question 7

Howard (2001)

Answer 7

Children from poor backgrounds have a low intake of energy leading to i’ll health and absence

Question 8

Who talks about Financial support ?

Answer 8

Tanner (2003)

Question 9

Tanner (2003)

Answer 9

Cost of transport, uniform, books and equipment places a burden on poor families

Question 10

What is marketisation in terms of school ?

Answer 10

Middle class parents are in a better position to manipulate the system to get better schools

Question 11

Who looks into Debt ?

Answer 11

Callander and Jackson (2005)

Question 12

Callander and Jackson (2005)

Answer 12

working class see debt as a negative
i.e. more cost than benefits to go to uni

Question 13

What are working class students more likely to do ?

Answer 13

Receive little support and apply to local university, more likely to drop out and spend time in paid work

Question 14

Cultural deprivation

Answer 14

Inadequate socialisation in the home, lack of cultural equipment

Question 15

What cultural deprivation factors effect education ?

Answer 15

. language
. parents
. attitude and values
. cultural capital

Question 16

What researchers talked about language ?

Answer 16

Feinstein (2008) and Bernstein (1973)

Question 17

Feinstein (2008)

Answer 17

Educated parents are more likely to use challenging language

Question 18

Bernstein (1973)

Answer 18

Working class underachieve due to being socialised into restricted language code instead of elaborate code

Question 19

What researchers talked parents education ?

Answer 19

Douglas (1964) and Bernstein and Young (1967)

Question 20

Douglas (1964)

Answer 20

Working classparents placed less value in education, so give less encouragement to children

Question 21

Bernstein and Young (1967)

Answer 21

Better educated parents have high income to promote child’s education

Question 22

what parenting style to educated parents have ?

Answer 22

high expectations and discipline of their children and know how to assist them

Question 23

Who talked about attitudes and values ?

Answer 23

Sugarman (1970)

Question 24

Sugarman (1970)

Answer 24

Identitied four barriers on education, immediate gratification, Fatalism, present time orientation and collectivism

Question 25

Who did a study on cultural capital ?

Answer 25

Sullivan (2001)

Question 26

Sullivan (2001)

Answer 26

Studies 465 students found those reading fiction and watched documentaries had a wider vocabulary

Question 27

Weaknesses of Outside factors

Answer 27

• Deterministic
• Reductionist
• Blackstone and Mortimore
• Failing schools have less effective parent contact system

Question 28

Black and Mortimore (1994)

Answer 28

Working class parent attend less parents evenings due to longer hours at work. Want to help children but lack skills and knowledge to do so