New Right - ethnicity Flashcards
Thiel research
Conducted ethnographic study on a London building site
- Participant observation used for one year
Working class culture was observed alongside ethnicity
- Ethnic hierarchy existed in labour force
Sub-contractors employed men from their own community and ethnicity and their rarely employed men from outside of their community
- Carpenters = Indian ethnicity
- Labourers = Irish ethnicity
- Plasterers = Seychelles
- Managers = White British
Migrant workers from outside of these ethnic groups were rarely employed even if they could work hard for less pay
If migrant workers employed they were first to be fired if demand for work reduced (racism amongst different ethnic groups)
Affected employment opportunities and economic power of ethnic groups in the labour market
Tony Sewell
Black masculinity & schooling.
- studied afro caribbean boys aged 11-16 in UK comprehensive schooling
Boys raised by lone mothers, lacked father / male role model
Vulnerable to peer group pressure
* being drawn into gangs and forming anti school groups
Displayed macho forms of masculinity
* wanted respect and often rejected authority figures
“Black masculinity” subculture formed and peer group was comfort zone for young males, rejected by absent fathers and education system
18% of afro caribbean boys adopted anti school subculture
Evaluation of Tony Sewell
Criticised for blaming Afro-Caribbean for their own underachievement.
Doesn’t acknowledge real cause of failure
-institutional racism and racism in education
