Ethnic Inequality

Question 1

What is prejudice

Answer 1

Belief that lead people to be biased to others = what we think about people

Eg; 2001 twin towers, asiand have been subjected to islamaphobia

Question 2

What is discrimination

Answer 2

Actions = unfavourable treatment to people from a particular group

Eg, young black = more likely to be stopped and searched

Question 3

Racism

Answer 3

Miles - it is a recent term only came to use in 1930

Where biological differences make a race

Question 4

What does rex say about racism

Answer 4

Racist theories attributed characteristics to human groups which were determined out of their control

Question 5

What does Solomos say about racism

Answer 5

People discriminate against member of other races/express derogatory or stereotypical beliefs

Question 6

What does richardson say about cultural racism

Answer 6

Cultural beliefs which transmit mistaken notions about the attributes and capabilities of racial groups

Question 7

What does Blauner say about institutional racisim

Answer 7

Racism is not conscious or prejudice but is vuilt in major institutions

Question 8

What does Katz say about institutional racism

Answer 8

All white americans are inevitably racists regardless of the individual because it is part of their conscious/unconscious culture and institutions eg police

Question 9

What does Mason say about institutional racism

• racism had been used in ;

Answer 9

1. Conspiracy - set out to discriminate
2. Scarmans report - brixton riots 1981
3. Macphersons reports - police are institutional racist
4. Marxist - it is a result from state policy

= lead to radical inequality

Question 10

Lord Scarman

Answer 10

Found brixton policing was meant to reduce street crime but lead to discrimination against African- Caribbean’s

Question 11

What does Weberians Barron and Norris propose

Answer 11

The dual labour market thoery

Question 12

What is the The dual labour market thoery

Answer 12

😀 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

Question 13

What does miles say?

Answer 13

Ethnic minorities at the bottom due to racism

Question 14

What does Phizaklea and Miles

Answer 14

Say that ethnic minorities workers from a distinctive layer within the working class

Question 15

What does Marxist say?

Answer 15

Racism is a tool of capitalism

Question 16

What does castle and Kosack say?

Answer 16

• 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

Question 17

Marxist - prejudice against immigrants is beneficial tooo

Answer 17

1. They are used as scapegoats for the problems created by capitalism
   - —- convent explanation for unemployment and housing shortage problems
2. Racism divides the working class = prevent them from joining for a class revolution

Question 18

What does Cox say?

Answer 18

Racism was developed to justify exploitation

- no capitalism = no racism

Question 19

What does neo-marxist say?

Answer 19

The emergence of “new racism”

Question 20

What does lawrence

Answer 20

Cultural differences are stressed rather than biological superior and inferiority of particular races
— attacks african- Caribbean & asian families

Question 21

How are Asians attacked

Answer 21

Extended families = overcrowding + isolation

Question 22

How are african/Caribbean’s attacked

Answer 22

Incapable of maintaining stable families

Question 23

What does gilroy say?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Evaluating gilroy

Answer 24

🚫 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