They reinforce attitudes and values about the importance
of educational success
Positive and negative sanctions
King and Raynor
child centered parenting is a
distinctive feature
Education
Hidden Curriculum
rewards middle class
values
Bourdieu
school helps to socialise into middle class identities
Role models. Imitation, rewards and sanctions
Bourdieu
They have values, knowledge, leisure interests and levels of
language skills at home that are similar to how school is set up.
Cultural Capital
Peer Group
Constantly striving and hence compete
with peers for recognition
Goodwin
middle class mothers define their identities by peer approval.
Yummy Mummies defined by peer approval on maternal
capabilities, glamour and styles and the experiences of their
children
Saunders
Consumption
Media
They target the middle class
because they have the highest
disposable income
Saunders
Conspicuous consumption buying
products to show of your wealth
Workplace
Wright
Occupy a contradictory class position.
They are both exploited and exploit