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Which has the greatest impact on educational attainment – gender, social class or ethnicity?
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Which has the greatest impact on educational attainment - gender, social class or ethnicity? Many sociological studies have been carried out in an attempt to explain the variations in educational performance between different social groups. From these studies, great emphasis has been placed upon certain factors such as social class, gender and ethnicity with relation to educational attainment. Sociologists agree that these facts, being your background, what sex you are (male or female) and what ethnic group you belong to, all impact greatly in the success rate of an individuals educational attainment. When social class is investigated in relation to educational attainment, research carried out by sociologist King (1) (1970) reveals that a child's educational success is related closely to their home background and the social class group to that of the parents. Most socialists would agree with King in the view that the higher a child's parents are in the social...
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