Class And Subject Choice

Question 1

What are the 3 class and subject choice

Answer 1

The status vocational classes

Teacher Labelling

Cultural attitudes of parents

Question 2

Ao1 and Ao3 the status of vocational courses

Answer 2

Prepare pupils for particular role open till recently. Vocational education has been given the low status as it leads to low pay jobs.
Working class people are more likely to be pushed in taking vocational courses such as health and social care, fashion, business etc
as they are more likely to practice and perform the manual jobs in society

Ao3 however, functionalist would argue that they still benefits the economy
The status of BTEC and T levels have begun to raise the status of vocational education

Question 3

Ao1 and Ao3 teacher labelling

Answer 3

Teachers label working class negatively which lead to self-fulfilling prophecy and they’re pushed towards taking easy BTEC Subjects
Teachers label middle-class positively as high achievers and they are pushed towards taking high status subjects like maths and science

Ao3
This was also sitting streaming I was working class are put into low set based on these labels. This limits their achievement which results in the working class not being able to choose more academic subjects due to low grades.

Question 4

Ao1
Cultural attitudes of parents

Answer 4

Sugarman argues that attitudes of the working-class and middle-class results from the different nature of manual and manual jobs
Working class pupils are more likely to aspire for manual jobs and therefore they choose vocational subjects in order to gain direct access to the
career and income quicker.
Middle-class occupations include high income jobs and high status as they have deferred gratification

Working class reach full earning capacity quickly and have immediate gradation