Ethnic Inequality Flashcards
ETHNIC INEQUALITY EVIDENCE
Outline ways in which a person’s life chances in the UK today may be influenced by their ethnicity. [20]
Weber defines life chances to explain how members of a society have ____ opportunities than others in achieving things in life which are desirable. Weber argues that life chances are linked to a social class background, but also ethnic background. Greater opportunities means that you will have a high social class background. However, it’s argued that ___ minorities experience _____ and _____, which will effect their life chances, along with their _____/____l. _____ argues that ethnic minorities have poorer life chances because they have not yet managed to ____ to mainstream culture.
Better, ethnic, marginalisation, deprivation, social capital, Patterson assimilate
ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN WORKPLACE
• _____ uses the term ‘____/____’ to show how discrimination prevents ethnic minorities from being _____. He says ‘___ ____’ can break through the class ceiling, but ethnic minority women cannot, which means they face the ‘____/____’’
• ____ and __ found that first generation ___ and ___ immigrants face discrimination in the workplace, terms of access to ___ managerial jobs
• ____/____/____ has found that there is evidence that ethnic minority graduates find it hard to gain higher level positions in the _____.
Davidson, Concrete ceiling, promoted, white women, concrete ceiling, Heath and Yu, black, Indian, higher, Joseph Roundtree Foundation, workplace
ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT
• The ONS finds that ___ women are the least employed social group, with __ unemployment rate
• _____ finds that there’s discrimination against ____ and ____ women in the workplace and employment, for example women removing their _____ in order to get jobs
• _____ found that there is discrimination in favour of ____ names compared to ethnic names, when it comes to employment
• ______ and _____ found that ethnic minorities are more likely to be ______ than the white majority in the UK, but still have a ____ time when it comes to finding employment.
Arab, 64%, Dodd, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, hijabs, Wood, white, Battu and Sloane, overeducated, hard
ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
• _____ argues that black males consume to _____ US culture and wide-stream values. However, they are racially and ______ excluded from society, so they turned to illegitimate means, such as violence and crime to achieve these goals.
• Black minorities suffer from the ____ of inclusion, which is the desire to be the included in the fight for success, designer lifestyle and the ‘American dream’. This means they are more likely to turn to ____
• The ____/____ Centre report on gangs found that ethnic groups are overrepresented in the media, and the popular misconception that gangs in the UK are associated with ____/_____ backgrounds is false.
• ______ argue that black males are _____ stigmatised in the media, and are given a master status by the police. This means they’re more likely to have a self-fulfilling prophecy, which reflects on them performing ____ behaviour.
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Nightingale, mainstream, economically, Paradox, crime, Social Justice, African Caribbean, Interactionists, negatively, deviant, Hall, moral, stigmatise, 15
The ___/_____ found that __% of Bangladeshis and Pakistanis live in ____ areas
• The ___ foundation found that living in deprived areas reduces the chances of being employed, but the effect is ___ for ethnic minorities
• ____ argues that ethnic minorities experience ______ which leads to social exclusion
2011 Consensus, 33%, deprived areas, Joseph, larger, Alock, deprivation
ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN WORKPLACE
• _____ uses the term ‘concrete ceiling’ to show how _____ prevents ethnic minorities from being promoted. He says ____/____ can break through the class ceiling, but ethnic minority women cannot, which means they face the ‘concrete ceiling’
• ____ and__ found that first generation Black and Indian immigrants face discrimination in the workplace, terms of access to higher _____l jobs
• Joseph_____Foundation has found that there is evidence that ethnic minority graduates find it hard to gain ___ level positions in the workplace
Davidson, discrimination, white women, Heath and Yea, managerial, Roundtree, higher
ETHNIC INEQUALITY IN EMPLOYMENT
• The ONS finds that ___ women are the least employed social group, with __ unemployment rate
• _____ finds that there’s discrimination against ____ and ____ women in the workplace and employment, for example women removing their _____ in order to get jobs
• _____ found that there is discrimination in favour of ____ names compared to ethnic names, when it comes to employment
• ______ and _____ found that ethnic minorities are more likely to be ______ than the white majority in the UK, but still have a ____ time when it comes to finding employment.
Arab, 64%, Dodd, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, hijabs, Wood, white, Battu and Sloane, overeducated, hard
