External Material Deprivaton

Question 1

Palmer

Answer 1

• 1/2 all minorities live in low income households - 1/4
• ethnic minorities are 2x as likely to be unemployed
• 1/2 Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earn 7 an hour

Such ifferences cause underachievement as have less motivation.

Question 2

Why are ethnic groups more likely to develop material deprivation?

Answer 2

• live in economically depressed areas - high unemployment and low wage
• Lack of language - qualifications not recognised
• Racism within job applications

Question 3

Does class override ethnicity

Answer 3

• If we dont take class factors into account then we overestimate the effect of cultural deprivation and underestimate the effect of poverty and material deprivation
• Indian and chinese pupils who are materially deprived still do better than most → 86% chinese girls who are on FSM achieved 5 GCSEs compared to only 65% of white girls who not on FSM

Question 4

Modood

Answer 4

While kids from low-income families generally did less well, the effects of low income were much less for other ethnic groups than for white pupils.

Question 5

REX

Answer 5

Racial discrimination leads to exclusion
* minority housing often in substandard - less room to concentrate
* Employment - evidence of discrimination

Question 6

Wood study illustrating the discrimination

Answer 6

Applied to 1,000 jobs using 3 applications with names consisted to ethnicity

• 1 in 6 ethnic got accepted
• 1 in 9 white got accepted
  Even despite the same credentials