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Worksheetsclass and inequality in education
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Material deprivation can have a negative affect on a pupils educational attainment. Who argues this?
a)
Douglas
b)
Colton
c)
Smith and Nobel
d)
Bernstein
2.
Teachers have an 'ideal student' that they want to teach. These students are mostly middle class.
a)
Bourdieu
b)
Douglas
c)
Bernstein
d)
Howard Becker
3.
Middle class pupils and teachers share the same cultural capital where as the working class experience symbolic violence? Who argues this?
a)
Bourdieu
b)
Douglas
c)
Saunders
d)
Smith and Nobel
4.
Education reinforces a ‘collective conscience’. Children become ‘social beings’ who know the right values.
a)
Talcott Parsons
b)
Émile Durkheim
c)
Davis and Moore
5.
We learn to accept social inequalities through the hidden curriculum. The hidden curriculum maintains class inequality. The ruling class maintain power by teaching their values through the hidden curriculum. Education is a system that the gov. use to teach ruling class ideas
a)
Althusser
b)
Bowles and Gintis
c)
Paul Willis
d)
Pierre Bourdieu
6.
School is organized around concerns, curiosity, and real-world experiences of students.
a)
Progressivism
b)
Perennialism
c)
Essentialism
d)
Existentialism
7.
He created the theory that outlined the four stages of cognitive development
a)
B.F. Skinner
b)
Horace Mann
c)
Jean Piaget
d)
John Dewey
8.
He developed progressive education and is possibly the most influential educator of the 20th century.
a)
Horace Mann
b)
Friedrich Froebel
c)
Jean Jacques-Rousseau
d)
John Dewey
9.
Douglas, (1964) found out that the single most important factor explaining educational success or failure was:
a)
High cultural capital
b)
Amount of parental encouragement
c)
Postcode
d)
Labelling
10.
Cultural deprivation is an external explanation for academic under achievement explained by
a)
Factors such as subcultures and different norms and values which stress toughness and masculinity
b)
Factors such as lack of books and trips to the theatre
c)
Factors such as young people's socialisation in the family, their community and cultural values
d)
Factors such as football and hockey
11.
Restricted and elaborated code are terms which are used by which sociologist to explain the different language types of working class and middle class people
a)
Fran Ansley
b)
Sue Sharpe
c)
Basil Bernstein
d)
Karl Marx
12.
One explanation which has been given for poor educational performance of working class students which includes things such as poor housing and lack of a place to study is:
a)
External Factors
b)
Cultural Deprivation
c)
Social Deprivation
d)
Material deprivation
13.
What is cultural capital?
a)
The tastes, knowledge, language and cultural attitudes of the dominant class which give an advantage in the education system.
b)
The friends, network and social connections that you have
c)
The money and assets that you have
d)
Being able to swim like a fish in a middle-class education system
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