Social class and Attainment

Social class is....

• Often based on occupation and economic status.

• How society treats males and females.

• A form of social control.

• A type of primary socialisation.

These factors include language codes, values and attitudes.

• material

• gender

• cultural

• practical

These factors include money and what money can buy.

• cultural

• material

• practical

• ethnic

This sociologist created the term cultural capital...

• Oakley

• Zaretsky

• Bourdieu

• Parsons

Additional funding for disadvantaged pupils in publicly funded schools is called...

• pupil performance

• pupil perfection

• perfect premium

• pupil premium

Which sociologist states that many working class parents DO have high aspirations for their children, but do not have the social capital to understand the rules of the game?

• Francis

• Raey

• Ball

• Bourdieu

Which sociologist argues that there is more parental choice of school if you have money?

• Ball

• Oakley

• Parsons

• Raeys

Which sociologist states that middle class mothers better understood how the school system worked and how to help their children succeed.

• Raeys

• Ball

• Bourdieu

• Zaretsky

What term is used when middle class parents might move to an area just to get their children into school?

• house picking

• selection by mortgage

• mortgage mission

• house hunting

The body that regulates exams in England is called....

• Ofsted

• Ofcom

• Ofqual

• Offer