o work, he found that they generated an anti school culture, heavily focused upon their masculinity. This was said by Willis to help them cope in later life, in the form of the job they found and the hard harsh life style they developed. They had little time for middle class school values and for posh qualifications seeing them as boring and a waste of their time.
             Although social status as a lot to do with educational attainment, there is also the point that a child may come from a family with low status and income but may have parents that transmit a high education aspiration for their child ( Zuppala, 2000).
             Cultural capital could have more to do with the fact that lower class children under achieve. Bourdieu, 1977 states that cultural capital consists of a familiarity with the dominate culture in a society, and the ability to understand educated language. The possession of cultural capital varies depending on social class, yet many schools assume that children possess cultural capital. Making it difficult for lower classes to succeed within education.
             "By doing away with giving explicitly to everyone what it implicitly demands of everyone, the educational system demands of everyone alike that they have what it does not give. This consists mainly of linguistic and cultural competence and that the relationship of familiarity with culture which can only be produced by family upbringing when it transmits the dominant culture" (Bourdieu, 1977:494).
             Bourdieu believes that the educational system presupposes that its pupils posses cultural capital, yet only a majority of students do, therefore there is a great deal of inefficiency in the teachers transmission. This is because students simply do not understand what their teachers are trying to say. Despite the fact that most of these students are from lower class backgrounds and are seriously disadvantaged in the competition for good overall educational attainment, the ...