External Factors Flashcards
Compensatory education
Tackled problem of cultural deprivation by given extra resources to deprived areas
Material deprivation
Poverty and lack of material necessities such as housing
Cultural capital
Knowledge, attitudes, values of the middle-class
Habitus
Middle-class values, knowledge which gives an advantage
What are the three areas of external factors?
Cultural deprivation, material, deprivation, cultural capital
What are the four factors of material deprivation?
Housing, diet and health, financial support and cost of education, fear of debt.
What are the subcultural values that work in class parents have?
The four main beliefs: fatalism, collectivism, immediate gratification, present time orientation
Who came up with the four main subcultures
Sugarman
What did Bernstein say that the working class and middle-class have in language
Restricted code and elaborated code
What are the three capitals Bordieu says that the middle-class has
Economic capital, cultural capital and educational capital
What are some examples of compensatory education?
Sesame Street, operation Head start, sure start
Who criticises the idea that working-class parents do not care about their child education
Blackstone and Mortimore
What is restricted code?
Used by the working class it is limited vocab and based on short grammatically incorrect sentences
What is elaborated code?
Used by the middle-class, it has wider vocab and more complex grammatical sentences
What did Douglas say about working class parents
They placed less value on education and were less ambitious for their children and gave them less encouragement
