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Sociology: Ethnicity and Education - Key Facts and Sociologists 1

This is the first quiz based on key facts and sociologists regarding the AQA A-Level Ethnicity and Education topic in Sociology. Below are the words which need to be matched to their definitions: John Rex (1986) Swann Report (1985) Ethnic Indian students Wood et al (2010) Gypsy/Roma students Tariq Modwood (2004) Ethnic Chinese students Irish Traveller students Linda Platt (2012) Linguistic statistics for GCSE results Bereiter & Engelmann (1966) Guy Palmer (2012) Ethnic Chinese The DfEs (UK Department for Education and Skills, 2005) Office of National Statistics
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Gypsy/Roma students
Low achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 4.7%
Wood et al (2010)
These people found evidence of direct and deliberate discrimination in employment:
-Sent 3 closely matched job applications to each of almost 1,000 job vacancies.
-These came from fictitious applicants using names associated with different ethnic groups.
-It was found that only 1 in 16 'minority' applications were offered an interview, as against 1 in 9 'White' applications.
John Rex (1986)
This sociologist showed how racial discrimination leads to social exclusion and this worsens the poverty faced by minority ethnic groups. One example was through housing - minorities were more likely to be forced into substandard accommodation than White people of the same class.
Guy Palmer (2012)
This sociologist found:
-Almost half of all children from minority ethnic backgrounds live in low-income households, as against a quarter of White children.
-Members of minority ethnic group households = 2x more likely to be unemployed compared to White people.
-Minority ethnic group households ≈ 3x as likely to be homeless.
-Almost half of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earned under £7 per hour, compared with only a quarter of White British workers.
Bereiter & Engelmann (1966)
They wrote that language used by low income Black American families is inadequate for educational success, as they claimed it is ungrammatical, disjointed, and they are unable to express abstract ideas.
Irish Traveller students
Low achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 9.3%
Ethnic Chinese students
High achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 72%
Linda Platt (2012)
This sociologist looked at hourly rates of pay for males in the UK - by ethnic group.
From highest to lowest - rank order: Chinese, Indian, White British, Black African and Black Caribbean, Bangladeshi, Pakistani
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Swann Report (1985)
This report found social class accounts for at least 50% of the difference in achievement between ethnic groups, as well as finding while language factors might hold back some children, for the majority they were of little importance and was not a major factor in educational underachievement
Ethnic Chinese
2011 - 86% of girls from this ethnic group who received free school meals, achieved 5 or more higher grade GCSEs, compared with only 65% of White girls who didn't receive free school meals
Office of National Statistics
This government department found single parent families are very common amongst the Black Caribbean (48%) and Black African (36%) community. In this family type there is often a lack of a positive male role model
Tariq Modood (2004, 2005)
2004 - This sociologist found that while children from low-income families did less well in education, effects of low income were much less for other ethnic groups than for White pupils.
2005 - This sociologist found that Pakistani and Black students were less likely than White students to be placed in higher education.
The DfEs (UK Department for Education and Skills, 2005)
This report titled "The impact of teachers’ expectations on educational achievement", found any impact of language declines as children get older, and that preschool language differences are rapidly overcome
Ethnic Indian students
High achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 61.9%
Linguistic statistics for GCSE results
2010 pupils with English as their first language were only 3.2 points ahead of those without English as their first language (55.2% to 52%) when it came to gaining 5 GCSEs A* to C
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