Racism in Wider Society

Question 1

What does John Rex show?

Answer 1

how racial discrimination leads to social exclusion and how this worsens the poverty faced in ethnic minorities

Question 2

How does discrimination affect housing?

Answer 2

• discrimination means that minorities are more likely too be forced into substandard accommodation than white people of the same class

Question 3

What did Wood et al do and find?

Answer 3

• Wood et al sent three closely matched job applications to 1000 job vacancies
• One application appeared to come from a white person and the other 2 were from ethnic minority groups
• they found that 1 in 16 ethnic minority applications were offered an interview against one in 9 white applicants

Question 4

What does Wood et al findings show us?

Answer 4

why members of ethnic minorities are more likely to face unemployment and low pay and this has a negative effect on their children’s education