... the working class. Bourdieu, a Marxist, argues that working class failure is the fault of the education system and not of their culture or family. He feels that the education system is based towards the middle class culture and it devalues the knowledge and skills of the working class students. J.W.B.Douglas (1964) did a longitudinal study of 5,362 children who were born in the first week of March in 1946, and came to the outcome that the key factor in children's success in education is parental interest. This is because middle class parents gave greater attention to their children's education, than working class parents did. Also, middle class parents expected more from their children and gave them more rewards. He came to the assumption that the working class were 'culturally deprived'. He, also, suggested that during primary socialisation, middle class children receive greater attention and stimulus from their parents. This forms ...

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