Lesson 03B2.3.1

03B2.3.1 Inside and outside school factors; structural, material and cultural factors Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 9

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The 20 questions

  1. What term describes barriers to learning stemming from a student's home environment and values?

    • Cultural deprivation
    • Material deprivation
    • Structural constraint
    • Institutional bias

  2. Which sociologist famously identified speech codes known as elaborated and restricted codes?

    • Stephen Ball
    • Howard Becker
    • Pierre Bourdieu
    • Basil Bernstein

  3. What term does Pierre Bourdieu use to describe the knowledge, values, and tastes of the dominant class?

    • Social capital
    • Economic capital
    • Symbolic capital
    • Cultural capital

  4. Which factor of educational underachievement involves poverty, poor housing, and a lack of resources?

    • Cultural deprivation
    • Labelling theory
    • Material deprivation
    • Subcultural theory

  5. What sociological perspective views education as reproducing class inequality through the transmission of ruling-class culture?

    • New Right
    • Marxism
    • Feminism
    • Functionalism

  6. According to Sugarman, which working-class subcultural value involves wanting rewards immediately rather than later?

    • Collectivism
    • Immediate gratification
    • Fatalism
    • Deferred gratification

  7. What term describes the belief that the working-class cannot change their social status, leading to underachievement?

    • Collectivism
    • Fatalism
    • Meritocracy
    • Individualism

  8. Which sociologist highlighted the role of compensatory education programmes like Operation Head Start in the USA?

    • Ball and Bowe
    • Bowles and Gintis
    • Bereiter and Engelmann
    • Davis and Moore

  9. If a working-class family cannot afford a quiet desk space or revision guides, which factor is primarily at play?

    • Subcultural fatalism
    • Restricted code
    • Material deprivation
    • Cultural capital

  10. A student uses slang and context-bound language at home but struggles with formal, universalistic essays. Whose speech codes explain this?

    • Pierre Bourdieu
    • Howard Becker
    • Basil Bernstein
    • David Hargreaves

  11. Middle-class parents visiting universities and leveraging professional networks to aid their child's education are using what?

    • Cultural capital
    • Economic capital
    • Immediate gratification
    • Social capital

  12. When a student values group loyalty above individual educational achievement, which working-class subcultural value is exhibited?

    • Deferred gratification
    • Collectivism
    • Individualism
    • Meritocracy

  13. Which term describes the conversion of economic capital into educational advantages through private school fees?

    • Social mobility
    • Compensatory education
    • Meritocratic selection
    • Class reproduction

  14. Which outside-school factor focuses specifically on how parents' own educational level influences their children's achievement?

    • Parental interest
    • Material poverty
    • Streaming practices
    • Labelling processes

  15. Why might fear of debt deter working-class students from entering higher education, according to material deprivation theorists?

    • Financial barrier
    • Fatalistic attitude
    • Cultural deficit
    • Restricted speech

  16. How does Bourdieu describe the process by which middle-class culture is treated as superior within the education system?

    • Immediate gratification
    • Material deprivation
    • Symbolic violence
    • Deferred punishment

  17. Critiquing cultural deprivation theory, what do interactionists argue it actually represents?

    • Economic realism
    • Structural necessity
    • Class neutrality
    • Victim blaming

  18. Which researcher famously used longitudinal data to demonstrate the significant impact of home background on attainment?

    • Will Swann
    • Jeremy Tunstall
    • Paul Willis
    • J.W.B. Douglas

  19. What major national policy intervention in Britain aimed to tackle material and cultural deprivation in deprived urban areas?

    • Education Action Zones
    • Academies Programme
    • Tripartite system
    • Public Schools Act

  20. If a sociologist claims low attainment stems from inadequate parental socialisation rather than capitalism, which paradigm are they likely using?

    • Interactionism
    • Feminism
    • Marxism
    • New Right

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