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Class Differences in Educational Achievement
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- 1What is Cultural Deprivation?It means that working class children are not socialised as well as middle class children, which means they don't have the right culture they need to do well in education.
- 2What 3 things come under Cultural Deprivation?Intellectual Deprivation
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Attitudes and Values - 3What is Intellectual Development all about?It's about children being able to think and solve problems. The problem is that children form working class homes go to school and they haven't developed the intellectual skills they need to do well.
- 4What did 2 things did Douglas find? (intellectual development) -1960He found that working class children had lower scores on ability tests than middle class children. He also found that the kinds of toys parents choose can influence their children's intellectual development. Middle class mothers were more likely to choose toys that encourage thinking and problem solving.
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