SOC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wrestling, Institute Of Environmental Sciences And Technology, Shool
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Tuition keeps rising and income does not keep pace. Puts a strain on working class families. Osap cam help but the poor are risk averse. Upper (cid:272)lass pare(cid:374)ts i(cid:374)(cid:448)est their resour(cid:272)es i(cid:374)to their (cid:272)hildre(cid:374)"s edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374) at an early age: private education, attend better public schools, provide more support this leads to the upper class doing better in primary and secondary school. More likely to be in the gifted programs the poor are more likely to be in the applied programs. Upper class families (top 25% in income) 50% of their offspring go to university. Why do class based differences in educational attainment exist and. He showed that teachers are more likely to perceive middle class children as being of higher ability than working class children and treats them as such. At the beginning of the year all student iqs were tested. 20% of students were selected at random.
