Cultural factors in relation to achievement-revision notes
- Cultural factors are distinct from material factors:
- Cultural deprivation emphasises home and family background as the cause of underachievement at school
- Failures of socialisation, pre-school learning, weak language skills combined with the wrong values and attitudes lead to underachievement
- Sociologists have identified the following 5 causes of working-class underachievement:
- Speech and language codes
- Amount of cultural capital
- Amount of cultural deprivation
- Parents’ attitudes and interest in education
- Subcultural attitudes and values
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