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Evaluate sociological explanations for working class underachievement. During the twentieth century, numerous changes were made to the structure of the education system. These changes include the 1944 Education act which made secondary education obligatory and the introduction of the National Curriculum in 1988. Official statistics state that all these measures have served to amplify the overall levels of educational attainment, but both official and sociological evidence indicates that class-based inequities in educational attainment have shown no inclination to decline. Sociological explanations have suggested many different reasons for the class base differences in educational achievement. It is suggested that the diversity in educational success between different classes are due to home and family factors. This approach is based on the belief that those from different social classes have significantly differing home lives. It is possible to split home and family based factors into three main categories, material factors, cultural factors and...

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