Ethnic Inequality Flashcards
What is prejudice
Belief that lead people to be biased to others = what we think about people
Eg; 2001 twin towers, asiand have been subjected to islamaphobia
What is discrimination
Actions = unfavourable treatment to people from a particular group
Eg, young black = more likely to be stopped and searched
Racism
Miles - it is a recent term only came to use in 1930
Where biological differences make a race
What does rex say about racism
Racist theories attributed characteristics to human groups which were determined out of their control
What does Solomos say about racism
People discriminate against member of other races/express derogatory or stereotypical beliefs
What does richardson say about cultural racism
Cultural beliefs which transmit mistaken notions about the attributes and capabilities of racial groups
What does Blauner say about institutional racisim
Racism is not conscious or prejudice but is vuilt in major institutions
What does Katz say about institutional racism
All white americans are inevitably racists regardless of the individual because it is part of their conscious/unconscious culture and institutions eg police
What does Mason say about institutional racism
- racism had been used in ;
- Conspiracy - set out to discriminate
- Scarmans report - brixton riots 1981
- Macphersons reports - police are institutional racist
- Marxist - it is a result from state policy
= lead to radical inequality
Lord Scarman
Found brixton policing was meant to reduce street crime but lead to discrimination against African- Caribbean’s
What does Weberians Barron and Norris propose
The dual labour market thoery
What is the The dual labour market thoery
😀 primary labour market - characterised by high pay, job security, good working conditions and propmotions
😥 secondary labour market - lower paid, less job security, inferior working conditions
😐😐😐😐 black = secondary
What does miles say?
Ethnic minorities at the bottom due to racism
What does Phizaklea and Miles
Say that ethnic minorities workers from a distinctive layer within the working class
What does Marxist say?
Racism is a tool of capitalism
What does castle and Kosack say?
- rich nations have exploited poorer nation
- third world countries have been used as a cheap source of labour
- migrants are willing to work for law wages = reducing labour costs
Marxist - prejudice against immigrants is beneficial tooo
- They are used as scapegoats for the problems created by capitalism
- —- convent explanation for unemployment and housing shortage problems - Racism divides the working class = prevent them from joining for a class revolution
What does Cox say?
Racism was developed to justify exploitation
- no capitalism = no racism
What does neo-marxist say?
The emergence of “new racism”
What does lawrence
Cultural differences are stressed rather than biological superior and inferiority of particular races
— attacks african- Caribbean & asian families
How are Asians attacked
Extended families = overcrowding + isolation
How are african/Caribbean’s attacked
Incapable of maintaining stable families
What does gilroy say?
Racial divisions are separate from class divisions
- conflict is based around new social movements that are based around non-economic issues
- racism is linked to iseas of patriotism and Englishness
Evaluating gilroy
🚫 race refers to biological differences which lawrance and gilroy reject = should use a different concept 🚫 marxism - class conflict is far from deal it plays a pivotal role in the explanation of racism
