Intersectionality Class, ethnicity and gender

Gillian Evans (2006)

• We should look at the interactions between class, gender and ethnicity

• When studying achievement and ethnicity, sociologists tend to consider things like culture but very rarely social class

• When studying white children they often focus on class rather than ethnicity or culture

Gillian Evans (2006)

• There should be a focus on all of these things and how they interact to advantage or disadvantage children.

Paul Connolly (2006)

• ‘Interaction effect’

• Certain combinations of factors have more effect than others

• For example being female raises performance more when added to being black Caribbean than it does when added to white

• But class differences are much more marked in white pupils