Class

Class

1. Home Factors

   • Material Deprivation
     • Housing- w/c have poor housing- overcrowding- hard to study
     • Diet and health- cant afford nutritious food
     • Finance - hand me downs/ second hand items
     • Fear of debt
   • Cultural Deprivation
     • CRITISISM= myth of cultural deprivation- Keddie- Cultural Difference. W/C do shift work of unsocial hours to fund for thier families so cant go to parents evenings.
     • Subcultures sugarman. W/C are 1) present time orientated. 2) immediate gratification. 3) collectivism. 4) fatalism
     • Parents education- m/c who are highly educated, value education. M/c have a higher income so focus on reading and childs nutrition
     • Language Bernstein - Elaborated code= m/c, Restricted code= w/c

2. School Factors

   • Labelling = self fulfilling prophecy. rosenthal and Jacobson- spurters
     • CRITISISM = Too Deterministic
   • Setting and Streaming= Lacey
     • Differentiation and polarisation
   • Teacher-Pupil relationships
     • becker- ideal pupil- white middle class
   • hidden curriculum
     • competition, hierarchy and conformist
   • pupil subcultures
     • anti school subcultures- bottom sets, working class failures against school
     • pro-school subcultures- top sets, middle class
   • Identities
     • middle class habitus is accepted= symbolic capital. working class habitus is negative=symbolic violence. Nike identity conflicts with school identity. schools believe w/c are unrealistic and undesirable