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Socio-economic position is the best way to predict the life outcomes of a person and also his educational outcomes. If a person is rich and from higher class, he is more likely to enjoy more success in life and receive higher education as compared to someone who is from a lower class. This is indicated in the line “much sociology-based research shows that socio-economic position is still one of the best predictors of who will achieve success, prosperity and social status and, in particular who will enjoy the highest levels of educational outcomes” (Field and Morgan-Klein.). In our society social class, economic status and the race we belong to are more or less related to each other. So, a student who is born in a poor family is destined to never receive success in life. He can challenge his fate (the society) but is unlikely to win as all the odds are stacked against him. The child is never given the right tools to be successful in life. One of the most important tools is the quality of education he receives. As the child is poor and not receiving a good quality of education he is being forced to not be prosperous in
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Jean Anyon states that difference in the education quality given to different students will result in them taking their parent’s role in society and therefore in society reproducing itself in few years. She states this in the line “These differences may not only contribute to development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationships and not others but would thereby help to reproduce the current reproduce this system of relations in society.” The society and our education system are designed to make the children into their parent that is, the children are expected to do the same work in life as their parents did. The son of a doctor is expected to become a doctor and the son of a carpenter a carpenter. Schools in which rich parents send their children, the teacher emphasizes on is the fact that students actually understand the concept behind a problem. This helps the students in the future in their lives when they face problems. The schools were the poor students go, they are just taught by their teachers to follow a certain procedure and not think about how they got the answer or how to improve upon the way to get the answers. This teaching method is indicating that in life they are only supposed to follow the rules that are stated to them efficiently and to not ask any questions about it. So, the schools play an important role in shaping our
Jean Anyon states that difference in the education quality given to different students will result in them taking their parent’s role in society and therefore in society reproducing itself in few years. She states this in the line “These differences may not only contribute to development in the children in each social class of certain types of economically significant relationships and not others but would thereby help to reproduce the current reproduce this system of relations in society.” The society and our education system are designed to make the children into their parent that is, the children are expected to do the same work in life as their parents did. The son of a doctor is expected to become a doctor and the son of a carpenter a carpenter. Schools in which rich parents send their children, the teacher emphasizes on is the fact that students actually understand the concept behind a problem. This helps the students in the future in their lives when they face problems. The schools were the poor students go, they are just taught by their teachers to follow a certain procedure and not think about how they got the answer or how to improve upon the way to get the answers. This teaching method is indicating that in life they are only supposed to follow the rules that are stated to them efficiently and to not ask any questions about it. So, the schools play an important role in shaping our