Ethnic Inequality

Question 1

Barron & Norris (Workplace)

Answer 1

Dual Labour Market:
- Primary labour market = well paid secure jobs dominated by white people
- Secondary labour market = poorly paid insecure jobs concentrated with ethnic minorities
- Difficult to transfer labour market

Question 2

Davidson (Workplace)

Answer 2

Concrete Ceiling:
- Ethnic women experience both racism and sexism which prevent them from accessing promotional chances

Question 3

Akinti (Media)

Answer 3

TV over focuses on the negatives of black people:
-Aids in Africa
-Crime in deprived areas
-Black Underachievement
Media ignores cultural contributions to society

Question 4

Hall (Media)

Answer 4

Moral Panic:
-Black boys are portrayed as threats to social order = issues created by capitalism is blamed on immigrants
-Media use EM as scapegoats to protect capitalism

Question 5

Coard (Education)

Answer 5

Worse Attainment:
-Afro Caribbean boys begin education on par with their white counterparts
-Negative labelling and an ethnocentric curriculum + teachers low expectations = low motivation and underachieving in exams

Question 6

Wright (Education)

Answer 6

Teachers Attitudes:
-Asian children were excluded from conversations because teachers assumed they had poor english
-When children are included teachers outrightly criticised their traditions and cultures
-Girls received less attention and were invisible to the teachers

Question 7

Reiner (Crime)

Answer 7

Canteen Culture:
- Police characteristics e.g thirst for action, cynicism, suspicion and racism
- Characteristics lead to harsh treatment of ethnic minorities - Black men are 7x to be stopped and searched

Question 8

Hood (Crime)

Answer 8

Racism and Negative Labelling in the Justice System:
-Black men are 5% more like to receive a custodial sentence than white men
- BM tend to get sentences 3 months longer than WM for the same offence