Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Education and Social Class
- Stratification
- dividing society into social groups
- These social groups then develop the same/similar social/cultural characteristics
- This is how sociologists can group people
- E.G.
- upper class
- Royals
- Dukes/Lords
- Aristocracy
- Middle Class
- Teachers
- Doctors
- Lawyers
- Working Class
- Builders
- painters
- Cleaners
- Differences in education
- pattern is that children from higher classes will do better than lower classes
- Middle class children are more likely to be able to
- Read
- placed in higher groups
- more likely to go to university
- stay in education
- This is due to middle class parents being/having
- less money stress
- private tutors
- able to buy a good home near good schools
- more pro active with schooling
- internal and external factors affect all this too
- more likely to have their own room to study in at home (external)
- This inequality starts at primary age