Statistics for Sociology: Ethnicity and Education - Key Facts and Sociologists 1

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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.
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Ethnic Chinese2011 - 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
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Ethnic Chinese studentsHigh achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 72%
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Ethnic Indian studentsHigh achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 61.9%
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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.
100%
Gypsy/Roma studentsLow achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 4.7%
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Irish Traveller studentsLow achiever for attainment in English and Maths GCSE at grade 5 or above, 9.3%
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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.
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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
100%
Linguistic statistics for GCSE results2010 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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Office of National StatisticsThis 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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