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1 lis 2019 · After outlining and discussing the sociological hypothesis that institutions play a role in the perpetuation of inequalities, we present social psychological research that highlights how...
1 lis 2019 · This chapter considers the idea that the educational system participates in the (re)production of social inequality. After outlining and discussing the sociological hypothesis that institutions play a role in the perpetuation of inequalities, we present social...
8 lut 2016 · This paper quantifies the contribution of one mechanism to the production of these inequalities: social class differences in school ‘effectiveness’, where ‘effectiveness’ refers to a school’s impact on pupils’ educational achievement (relative to other schools).
21 lip 2020 · The relationship between social class and equality in education has been the subject of research since the 1950s, and there are three major ways in which educational inequality manifests itself: inequality of opportunity, of resources and of outcomes, by which we mean things like GCSE and A-level results.
2 wrz 2020 · In this paper, we evaluate the benefits of a social class measure with a Bourdieusian theoretical foundation compared with an orthodox neo-Weberian occupation-based social class measure, the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC).
2 lut 2023 · In answering this research question, I outline four major approaches to shaping educational expectations and show how these approaches link to social class: the confident (focused and unconcerned), the determined (focused and risk aware), the explorative (undecided and unconcerned), and the anxious (the undecided and concerned).
1 lis 2019 · In this chapter, we attempt to explain how social and cultural factors prominent in the local educational context—and the social identity processes that these ignite—contribute to educational inequalities between people of different social classes.
