WORKING-CLASS IDENTITY AND EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS

Question 1

Ingram’s (2009) study of two groups of working-class Catholic boys:

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What do working-class communities place great emphasis on?

Answer 2

Conformity, the boys expressed a pressure to fit in and balance their poor neighbourhood to their middle-class hibitus of a grammar school