Class & Cultural Consumption Lesson

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

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Class Overview

• Warm-up Quiz
• Recap of Bourdieu
• Criticism of Bourdieu
• Breakout Discussion
  Break
• Globalization, Social Media and Education
• Breakout Discussion.
• Conclusions

Bourdieu's Cultural Capital Quiz

Q1

Recap

Brainstorm Q

Does Bourdieu's theory fit modern life?
Why (not)?

Criticism

Breakout Discussion

Part Two

Globalization, Social Media and Education

Globalization

Social media & Social class

Facebook, Instagram, twitter, Google+, YouTube, TikTok, Myspace, and so on

NRS (National Readership Survey)

social class

(source: Yates & Lockey, 2018)

What is social media?

What is social class?

Social media & social class

Five factors

• Media consumption: music, TV,​YouTube, games​ 
• Information seeking: health, public​ services, leisure​ 
• Political action: petitions, political​
  communication​ 
• Formal transactions: banking,​ government services​ 
• Social use: social media​
  

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Source: Yates & Lockey (2018)

Educational Inequality

Inequality is present in our society – also in education
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Unicef published a report with an overview of inequality among children in the 41 wealthiest countries (2016)
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Income & Education

Bottom 10% has less than 50% of disposable income when compared to middle income and is more likely to fall behind in education.

 There is a huge gap between 15-year-olds. They are falling below a minimum proficiency of reading, maths & science skills.

Some of the richest countries are at the bottom.

Income & education

The first column shows how far low-achieving children are behind the ‘average’ child
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The bars on the right show the percentage of children below minimum proficiency
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Although fewer children are left behind the ‘average’ child, the overall standard of the ‘average’ child is still poor.

Breakout Discussion Points

Globalization:

‘’Instead of creating unity, globalization leads to more diversity in the world’’

Social media:

‘’The extent of social media usage defines people’s social statuses.’’

Education:

‘’Better access to education automatically improves social inequality’’

Group Division