Class Attainment

Question 1

Who said the values of the working class are a self imposed barrier to achievement?

Answer 1

Hyman

Question 2

Who talked about the working class subculture being fatalistic, concern with immediate gratification, present time oriented and concerned with collectivism?

Answer 2

Sugarman

Question 3

Who claimed the key factor in educational achievement being parental interest?

Answer 3

Douglas

Question 4

Working class parents are interested in education but have less time to attend school and many feel uncomfortable in a school environment.

Answer 4

Blackstone and Mortimer

Question 5

Language codes working, working class restricted language code makes them struggle to under stand text books and communicate with teachers compared to middle class elaborated language code.

Answer 5

Bernstein

Question 6

Criticises Bernstein, little evidence of language codes & it’s wrong to think of the working class dialect and speech as inferior.

Answer 6

Rosen

Question 7

Myth of cultural deprivation, this myth informs teacher labelling.

Answer 7

Keddie

Question 8

Education action zones of new labour are based on the idea of cultural deprivation. But they reinforce the idea that working class attitudes are in some way lacking or inferior.

Answer 8

Gerwitz

Question 9

Working class children start school 1.1 months cognitively behind their middle class peers, due to material factors.

Answer 9

Woldfogal and Washbrook

Question 10

Middle class children = more likely to under go private tuition & more likely to participate in paid extracurricular activities

Answer 10

Sutton Trust