Ethnic Inequalities Flashcards
Patterson Host immigration model
It is due to immigrants failure to assimilate to british norms and values
Durkiehm
For there to be equality, there must be value consensus, if immigrants do not adopt values, there cannot be social equality
Parsons
society is meritocratic, everyone has the same chances to achieve what they want in society
Rex and Tomlinson
Study in Birmingham, found an underclass of ethnic inequality, who had been further segregated from working class
Barron and Norris
Dual Labour market
Cox
That race is a social construct, Capitalism has became hand in hand with colonialism. As Europeans explorers exploited those in colonies and justified racism
Castles and Kosack
Reserve army of labor, concentrated in low skilled jobs in bad conditions, in periods of bloom, this tactics used in order to scapgoate and reduce wages
Miles
Racism used to justify empire building, at end of empire building was replaced with nationalism, he argues also class should also be considered aswell as ethnicity
Abbott
previous stands of feminism are ethnocentric and portray only experiences of white woman, black woman are expected to contribute their own experiences rather than to the feminist theory as a whole
Brewer
Class, gender and race are simultaneous forces, these reinforce and multiple for black woman
Battu and Sloan
Ethnic inequalities often overeducated for their roles
Dodd
Woman have to remove hijabs and make names sound more british
Li
Job interviews deteriorate when interviewer finds out they are black
Platt
Ethnic minorities most likely to be in poverty and higher unemployment rates
