Cultural Deprivation

Cultural Deprivation

1. Intellectual Development

   • Middle class mums more likely to read to their children
   • Middle class parents more likely to choose educational toys needed to stimulate thinking and learning skills
   • Lower class mums more likely to buy non educational toys such as barbies, this therfore means lack of thinking development skills and does not prepare w/c children for school

2. Attitudes and Values

   • Collectivism
     • Valuing being part of a group rather than working independently
   • Present-time orientation
     • Believing that the present is more important than the future.
   • Fatalism
     • The belief that whatever will be will be, you cannot change your status
   • Immediate gratification
     • Seeking pleasures now rather than working for them for later, lack of long term goals.

3. Linguistic Deprivation

   • Elaborate code
     • Typicall spoken by the middle class. The elaborate code uses complex long finished sentences with a wide vocabularly.
   • Restricted code
     • Typically spoken by the lower class. The restricted code uses short gramatically simple vocabulary with a restricted range, and often uses unfinished sentences.