Explanations Of Ethnic

Question 1

Legitimisation

Answer 1

EM willing to work for low pay, allows employers to have lower pay.

Question 2

Hall

Answer 2

Black muggers, Marxist divide and rule. Working Class fighting each other as opposed to conflicting capitalism.

Question 3

Murray

Answer 3

New Right.
Argues people in the underclass accept it and become dependent.
This is why A/C stay in lower class.

Question 4

Weberian 3 points

Answer 4

Party
Status
Class

Status is subjective

Question 5

Weberian Explanation

Answer 5

Ethnic minorities lack one of Party/Status/Class.

Question 6

Dual Labour Market

Answer 6

Core and periphery working groups.

EM more likely to be found in periphery sector.

Question 7

Marxism vs Weberian

Answer 7

Marxism has ruling and working classes, Weberian has 8 classes (NS-SEC).
Marxism is deterministic

Question 8

Black Feminism

Answer 8

Intersectionality, critical of other theories for focusing on 1 kind of oppression.

Question 9

Rex and Tomlinson

Answer 9

Dual Labour Market.

Question 10

Patterson - functionalist theory

Answer 10

Host-immigrant model.

Question 11

Postmodernism

Answer 11

Critical of all other theories for focusing on class/gender/ethnicity etc. Argue people are more than the group’s they are a part of.

Question 12

Unsuitability

Answer 12

People uncomfortable with women in positions of power, or men in ‘traditional’ female roles.