Class impact on education
In school cultural factors Out of school cultural factors
Subcultures Material deprivation
Willis: Lad culture Smith & Noble: Barriers to learning
Jackson: Ladettes Blanden & Gregg: Drop of £140 p/w = 5%
more likely to not get any GCSE grades
Mac An Ghaill: Three F’s & Feminisation of
education
Setting and streaming Cultural capital
Keddie: Difference in teaching different Reay: MC mothers use their own cultural
sets capital to help navigate their children
through the education system
Gilbourn & Youdell: WC put into lower sets
Bourdieu: MC vs. WC Access to capital
The curriculum Access to higher education
Ramsay: Curriculum deliberately focusses Callendar & Jackson: Debt aversion
on things the WC have zero interest in.
Reay: MC belong at university, WC ‘fish out
Althusser: Hidden curriculum as an ISA. of water’
Labelling Parental aspirations
Hargreaves: Students internalise the labels Feinstein: MC more involved in their
teachers give them children’s education.
Gilbourn & Youdell: WC put into lower sets Strand: White lower classes distrust
education (parents failed by it)
Gaine & George: Parents who struggled in
school, struggle to help their kids through
their education.
In school cultural factors Out of school cultural factors
Subcultures Material deprivation
Willis: Lad culture Smith & Noble: Barriers to learning
Jackson: Ladettes Blanden & Gregg: Drop of £140 p/w = 5%
more likely to not get any GCSE grades
Mac An Ghaill: Three F’s & Feminisation of
education
Setting and streaming Cultural capital
Keddie: Difference in teaching different Reay: MC mothers use their own cultural
sets capital to help navigate their children
through the education system
Gilbourn & Youdell: WC put into lower sets
Bourdieu: MC vs. WC Access to capital
The curriculum Access to higher education
Ramsay: Curriculum deliberately focusses Callendar & Jackson: Debt aversion
on things the WC have zero interest in.
Reay: MC belong at university, WC ‘fish out
Althusser: Hidden curriculum as an ISA. of water’
Labelling Parental aspirations
Hargreaves: Students internalise the labels Feinstein: MC more involved in their
teachers give them children’s education.
Gilbourn & Youdell: WC put into lower sets Strand: White lower classes distrust
education (parents failed by it)
Gaine & George: Parents who struggled in
school, struggle to help their kids through
their education.
