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Education system is biased towards the culture of dominant social classes and values the skills of the working class. Culture capital is the knowledge, value, abilities, skills, languages of a middle class. Middle class, transmit these to children through socialisation, schools demand this. Educational attainment of social groups is directly related to culture capital. Students from middle class background have a built in advantage. Working class culture is rejected and not valued. Lack of culture capital is why working class don’t do well. Economic capital is where middles class parents have money for books, private school, move to better catchment area. Educational capital, ball and gewirtz identified 3 types of parents. Privileged skilled choosers know how to play the system. Middle class parents understand research, their life experience and knowledge help them choose out best school for their kids. They know how to communicate with teachers. Semiskilled choosers are just as concerned o get best education for their kids but lack experience and skills of the privileged choosers. Disconnected choosers- these parents are not inclined to get involved in the education market and more likely to working class parents. However its is not because they don’t care they just lack economic and culture capital. However working class parents might be in poverty therefore unable to provide money for uniform, books, calculators e.t.c marketisation of education hasn’t led to more opportunity for working class children. Instead, it has allowed the middle class to use their wealth and knowledge even more effectively than before.