Cultural explanations

Question 1

Parents’ attitude to education

Answer 1

Douglas- 50 years ago parent encouragement most important factor
M/C parents found to:
Take more interest in childs progress
More likely to want kids to stay on at school
More interested in exam and career options

Question 2

Define cultural deprivation

Answer 2

Idea that some young people fail in education due to to cultural deficiencies in home and family background

Question 3

Parents level of education

Answer 3

M/C parents who are genuinely more educated appear to understand school system better than W/C parents

Question 4

Language use and educational achievement

Answer 4

Bernstein

restricted and elaborated code

Question 5

Cultural capital

Answer 5

Bordieu’s theory

Marxist- saw school giving inbuilt advantage to M/C children