Assess the view that factors within schools are the greatest influence on social- class differences in educational achievement. (20 marks) I am going to be looking at the view that schools and the education system determine how successful each individual student will become; sociologists have very mixed opinions about whether the education system is beneficial to all pupils. There are some sociologists that believe labelling and stereotypes affect the way a student achieves within the education
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In Daphne Du Maurier’s “Rebecca” and in its film adaptation directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ class conflicts are represented through characterization and the use of symbol. Class conflict is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests between people of different classes. In “Rebecca”‚ the narrator and the protagonist‚ X is always regarded as inferior and According to World English Dictionary‚ “symbol” is “an object” used in a text “to stand for or
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The Lower Class Wears a Disguise Based on the Painting "Tobacco Settlers on a Hilltop" by Stephen Alke Cleaning‚ assembling‚ picking-labor. Our abilities extend to everything you could ever imagine. We take care of it all. We must. Who else will? We are the minions who run the world. You may boast about your profession. Perhaps your dreams are achieved‚ your life complete. We too had dreams. But the ever-pulsing backstage is a whirlpool. Dreams become driftwood. Deprived and depressed
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The Hidden History of Lower Class Japan in the Meiji Restoration “History is written by the victors” is one of the most common expressions when looking at historical events. The winning side that gains power will always consider themselves the good people‚ and will tarnish the name of their “evil” adversaries. Therefore‚ it is important when looking at history to consider biases to prevent getting incorrect ideas about certain groups. However‚ history is also often written about the victors. Most
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Access how factors within educational policies in Britain cause educational underachievement for the working class subculture. Educational policies have important effects on inequalities between class subcultures in education‚ I have picked out three of the educational polices between 1944 and 1988 that I believe has influenced working class achievement the most‚ the butler tripartite system in 1944‚ the comprehensive system in 1965+‚ and the ERA (new right policy) in 1988. The first policy that
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Discuss the view that class is still the most important factor influencing the way people vote Voting behaviour is the way in which the individuals of the electorate vote. Typically this can be divided into a sociological approach based on entrenched characteristics such as class‚ age and region and rational choice approach based on individual decisions based on political issues‚ governance and party leaders or image. Between the years of 1945-1970 social class dominantly shaped the voting behaviour
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A and elsewhere assess the view that social class differences in educational achievement are the result of school processes such as labelling. According to Bynner and Joshi (1999) class differences have persisted since the late 1950’s. It can be seen that all studies carried out by various theorist came to the same conclusion that middle class pupils tend to do a lot better than working class in terms of educational achievement. Pupils from middle class backgrounds tend to pass more exams‚ stay on
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different social and economic classes we have in society today. Lux compares these kids to the poor‚ the lower middle class‚ and the rich. He uses the innocence of the kids at the pool to get the idea that the rich always are cruel to the poor‚ and he uses the insecure girl to show the sympathy the lower middle class has for the poor because they are so close to them when it comes to social and economic class. In the poem The Swimming Pools‚ Thomas Lux gets his theme of the top always has it easier than the
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Class conflict is represented throughout the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire in various ways through characters‚ symbols‚ ideas and language. Characters such as Blanche‚ Stella‚ Mitch and Stanley are used throughout the text to represent the upper and lower classes‚ as well as the conflict between the two classes. Symbols‚ ideas and language help to define the different classes as well as helping to represent the conflict between classes. The language (dialogue) of the characters‚ symbolic use of
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The cultural deprivation theory argues that many working class and black children do not acquire the basic values‚ attitudes and skills needed for educational success through primary socialisation in the family. Many cultural deprivation theorists claim that working-class families inadequately socialise their children and therefore their children are ‘culturally deprived’. There are three main aspects to cultural deprivation‚ one of them being intellectual development. This refers to the
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