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Class
A way of dividing groups in society up by their socio - economic status and sociologist generally measure class via occupation.
An issue using occupation to define class
Patterns between educational achievement and class emerge.
Patterns of Class and Differential Achievement
Children from working class backgrounds are:
- Less likely to be found in nursery schools
-More likely to fall behind in literacy and numeracy
-More likely to leave school at 16 in the past
-Less likely to stay on and enter Further Education
-Less likely to be found in Higher Education (1 out of 5 continue to uni)
External Factors of Class and Achievement
-Intelligence
-Material Deprivation
-Cultural Deprivation
-Linguistic Deprivation
-Cultural Capital
Material Deprivation
Children do not have the money and resources that would give them an advantage in education, in the extreme this could be poverty.
Material Deprivation examples
-Can't afford private education
-Cannot afford educational resources for the home
-Poor overcrowded housing
-Poor Diet
-The hidden costs of free education
-Cannot afford transport or to move to the catchment area of an oversubscribed school that is high in league tables.
Can't afford private education
Private education is fee paying and selective but tends to get better results due to higher financial resources. This means more facilities and smaller class sizes.
Cannot afford educational resources for the home
This might mean things like books, educational toys, private tutors.
ONS (2013) found in the poorest households in Britain
29% had no computer
36% had no internet
Compared to 99% in the richest households.
This means that students could not complete coursework at home or felt socially excluded.
Poor overcrowded housing
Might mean children have less room to do school work and therefore do less well in education. For example, Douglas (1964)
Douglas (1964)
Examined educational pathways of 5362 children born in the first week of March in 1946. He divided this sample into two categories those who lived in satisfactory and those who lived in unsatisfactory conditions.
SC - Families that had the use of hot water, and an indoor bathroom and toilet.
UC - Those that did not
The UC group also had lower educational abilities and this increased with time.
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