Sociology: A-Level- Ethnicity And Education
Questions And Correct Answers
Driver and Ballard Asian family culture brings educational benefits, with parents having a
positive attitude towards education with higher aspirations for career options.
Driver Surveyed school leavers at 5 inner city schools and found that Afro-Caribbean
females did better than white children, because the matrifocal family tradition of Jamaica was
passed to them through strong female role models.
Modood Indian & Asian students have positive cultural capital which results in them
getting good jobs.
Swann report Asian families are close knit, which provides support for homework and a
refuge from racism
Black families lack this support from extended families, and so underachieve - and respond more
negatively to racism
Schools can be institutionally racist
Tizzard There is a 'myth of under-achievement' for black women. The girls in her sample
did better in exams than black boys and white pupils in the school.
Questions And Correct Answers
Driver and Ballard Asian family culture brings educational benefits, with parents having a
positive attitude towards education with higher aspirations for career options.
Driver Surveyed school leavers at 5 inner city schools and found that Afro-Caribbean
females did better than white children, because the matrifocal family tradition of Jamaica was
passed to them through strong female role models.
Modood Indian & Asian students have positive cultural capital which results in them
getting good jobs.
Swann report Asian families are close knit, which provides support for homework and a
refuge from racism
Black families lack this support from extended families, and so underachieve - and respond more
negatively to racism
Schools can be institutionally racist
Tizzard There is a 'myth of under-achievement' for black women. The girls in her sample
did better in exams than black boys and white pupils in the school.
