Ethnic inequalities perspectives
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- Perspectives on ethnic inequality
- Functionalism
- Patterson: Host-immigrant model (1965), three causes of inequality - fear of cultural difference, resentment of competition and failure to assimilate.
- Three stages of immigration - accommodation, integration and assimilation
- Patterson: Host-immigrant model (1965), three causes of inequality - fear of cultural difference, resentment of competition and failure to assimilate.
- Marxism
- Castles and Kosack: Ethnic minorities are in low-paid work and are a reserve army of labour for capitalism. Capitalist societies went through boom and bust phases so needed cheap labour
- Cox: Racism originated from capitalism to justify exploitation
- Miles: Racism was developed from colonialism but was replaced by nationalism in a post-colonial era
- Weberian theory
- Weber: Ethnic groups are not only treated as class members, they are also status groups which are usually lower than white people so suffer status inequality and class inequality
- Barron and Norris: Suggest white people are concentrated in higher-skilled and higher-paid jobs whereas ethnic minorities have lower-skilled and lower-paid jobs
- Rex and Tomlinson: Ethnic minorities experience both class and status discrimination. This leads to poverty which is amplified by racism
- Black feminism
- Abbot et al: Said other forms of feminism have been ethnocentric, perpetuated a victim ideology and practised theoretical racism
- Brewer: Sees black feminism as understanding how race, class and gender work together. Race reinforces and multiplies other inequalities
- Mirza: Stereotypes in the media negatively affect many black women negatively
- Connell: Links black feminism to post-colonial feminism and stresses the need for different types of feminism
- New Right
- Murray: black people are part of a dysfunctional underclass brought about by too generous welfare system and discouraged workmainly made up of never-married single mothers and young men who lacked fathers, therefore, positive role modelsconsequently, these men grow up dependent of benefits and turn to crime
- Sewell: three reasons for ethnic inequality1. Lacking fathers so no one takes responsibility for racism 2. failure to deal with institutional racism 3. Black rap promotes crime, sexuality, hyper-masculinity and materialism
- Functionalism
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