Keywords

• Catchment area


  Parents choose to live in an area with good schools to send their children to
• Symbolic status


  How individuals and groups interact and interpret cultural symbols
• Compensatory education


  Government education policies that seek to tackle the problem of under-achieving by providing extra support and funding to schools and families in deprived areas
• Gender-quake 


  Changes in attitudes to the traditional female role in society, increased participation and success of women caused traditional notions of femininity to be abandoned/redefined
• Habitus, Bourdieu 


  Ways of thinking and acting being shared by a particular social class or group
• Registered code, Bernstein


  Refers to language and communication in different social classes in education
• Gender domain


  Tasks that boys and girls see as their "territory", e.g. if the subject area is health and nutrition girls would excel whereas if its car related boys would excel
• Social mobility


  The movement of a person from one social status to another
• Symbolic violence

  Non-physical violence manifested in the power differential between social groups