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Examine the ways in which factors in pupils home background may affect their educational attainment.
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Examine the ways in which factors in pupils home background may affect their educational attainment. Factors in the home background that may affect pupils educational attainment may possibly be; speech, materialistic poscessions, parental support and ethnicity. The main factor that all four of these come under is Class. Sociological research shows that the higher social class somebody belongs to, the higher the levels of educational achievement. A comprehensive study by Halsey, Heath and Ridges shows, the sons of professional fathers were ten times more likely to attend university than the working class son. Functionalists believe that meritocracy exists and is reflected in a pupils natural ability and genetic inheritance (which also accounts for their parents class position). However, Bowles and Gintis feel class rather then IQ is the most important factor in determining how successful a student will be. The concept of IQ testing, is in itself a social construction; it has an...
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