Social Class

Question 1

What is the effect of material deprivation on working class families?

Answer 1

Working class fail as they don’t have access to resources such as tutors, revision books, vitamins, spaces to revise

Question 2

What is cultural deprivation?

Answer 2

A lack of resources due to a lack of money?

Question 3

How is achievement in social classes effected by setting and streaming?

Answer 3

Working class then fail as they are forced into groups of people with the same ability
- it stops them from developing skills

Question 4

How are the working class labelled?

Answer 4

Teachers label working class negatively from the start - so students are less confident and so less likely to achieve

Question 5

How do middle class students effected by culture capital?

Answer 5

• They are positively impacted as they are more likely to have private turors, nannys, parents not working long hours to spend with their child and educate them
• more likely to go to museums and galleries whcih progresses their education

Question 6

What is social capital?

Answer 6

The connections to people that help create an advantage with school or careers.

Question 7

How does social capital effect middle class students?

Answer 7

Middle class children are likely to know poeple as their parents are high up in careers or wealth that is able to get them somewhere or something. e.g. a career

Question 8

How does cultural deprivation cause social class underachievement?

Answer 8

Working class students fail due to lack of help and support from parents

Question 9

What is Bernesteins’ restricted codes?

Answer 9

language used between friends or family members, informal, simple, everyday language. (slang)
used by both middle class and working class but Bernsetin argued lower-working class are limited to it.

Question 10

What is Bernsteins’ elaborated codes?

Answer 10

language used by stangers and individuals in formal context, where explaination and details are needed
e.g. teachers, interviewers, writing business letters, writing essays
It gives the middle-class students an advantage at school due to the understanding of textbooks, writing essays and exam answers, class discussions.
Middle class students used to elaborated code will dind school work easier and learn more than working class students