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Recap... How influential is the media? Hall et al (1979) ‘mugging’ Hartmann and Husband (1974) Van Dijk (1991) race riots Is the media becoming more inclusive?. Social Class Inequalities. Education. Lack of ‘cultural capital’. Material factors. Parents’ attitudes to education. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Recap...
• How influential is the media?
• Hall et al (1979) ‘mugging’
• Hartmann and Husband (1974)
• Van Dijk (1991) race riots
• Is the media becoming more inclusive?
Social Class Inequalities
Education
Reasons for working-class
underachievement
Material factors
Lack of ‘cultural capital’ Parents’ attitudes
to education
Parent’s level of
education
‘Problem’ schools in deprived
areasRestricted code of
language
Teacher evaluations
of pupils
Working class
subculture
Think about...
Sample of study
Methods used to collect data
Findings of study
Does this confirm what we know about educational achievement and social class?
Material explanations
• Low wages• Poverty• Diet / health• Housing
‘indicators of social deprivation’
effect how well individuals do at
school
Cultural capital
• Bourdieu (1971)The ‘right’ knowledge, language, attitudes, values,
taste and lifestyle gives greatly improved chances of success in education
Educational capital
Economic capital
Parents’ attitudes to education• Middle-class parents have been found to...
– Take more interest in children’s progression in school
– Became relatively more interested and encouraging as child grows older
– More likely to want child to stay in education post 16
Parents’ level of education• Understand school system better
• Less confident in dealing with teachers?
• Able to advise children
• Complaints procedures
• Stimulate educational development before and during schooling
• Help with school work generally
‘Problem schools’
• Affluent / deprived areas
• Many schools rely on support from parents to finance extra resources
• Parents in poorer areas less able to support schools: schools may have less to spend on pupils
• Social problems in ‘deprived areas’ i.e. high unemployment, crime, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency
Restricted code of language
• Bernstein (1971)
– ‘elaborated code’
– ‘restricted code’
Teacher evaluations of students
• Stereotyping students• Labelling• Banding / streaming / setting
SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY!!
Working class subculture
Paul Willis ‘Learning to Labour’ (1977)
Phil Brown ‘Schooling ordinary kids’ (1987)