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One cultural factor which may affect ethnic differences in educational achievement is the language pupils speak. For some students English may not be their first language and therefore they may struggle when...

Intro - outline what Marxism is generally with general criticismsParagraph One - Althusser and ISAs, criticise with PostmodernismParagraph Two - Bowles and Gintis Hidden Curriculum, criticise with functional...

Structuralist theories see the structure of society as being formed from the top-down, that is, society is an objective factual reality which exists above and beyond us, and is able to constrain our behaviou...

This is quite a crucial area of sociology to understand as a general understanding of the type of theory will ultimately enable you to understand the aim of their views. Structural theories are the most comm...

One marxist claim about the role of education in a capitalist society is that is contains features of the ruling class habitus, which, as a result, puts the working class at a disadvantage as interest of the...