Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Quartile, Macro Analysis, Cultural Capital
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Correlation between educational outcome and socio-economic status (guppy. Sociological framework for explaining disparities (davies & maldonado, 2009) Corporations of universities (mohanty 2004; goldstene 2012) Education, mobility & ses (guppy 2009; davies & maldonado 2009 p. 159) Young children from low-income households are 4 times more likely to experience delays in vocabulary than are more affluent children. Teenagers with university-educated parents score considerably higher on reading, math and science tests compared to their peers with less educated parents: class reproduction through education system, reinforces class disparities. In 2001, about 50% of youth with univeristy0educated parents attended university themselves, compared to only 18% of those with parents having high school education or less: more material resources, global sociological norm university. Youth from the lowest family income quartile are 3 times more likely to drop out of high school than those from the highest quartile.
