Ethnicity and Inequality
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- Created on: 10-04-17 12:27
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- Ethnicity and inequality explainations
- Functionalism
- Patterson: The host - immigration model
- Three causes of ethnic inequality
- Hosts fear of cultural difference of the immigrant strangers and the social change that may develop.
- The hosts culture of resentment to having to compete with immigrants for scarce resources
- Failure of immigrants to assimilate
- Immigrants need to go through three stages in order to assimilate. Accommodation, Integration and Assimilation
- Evaluation: Postmodernist= Britain is a multicultural society in which different ethnic cultures co-exist.
- Marxism: Patterson ignores how the division of people by race helps to maintain the capitalist culture
- Three causes of ethnic inequality
- Patterson: The host - immigration model
- Marxism
- Ethnic inequalities are used to divide workers so they're easier to control
- Cox: Race is a human creation, it was developed at the start of capitalism and was used to justify exploitation.
- Evaluation: Difficult to prove that racism is a capitalist ideology as there is no evidence that it functions purely as a ideological apparatus
- Castles and Kosack: Immigrants serve as a RESERVE ARMY OF LABOUR, which was necessary in order to have a surplus of labour power and keep costs down
- Reserve army of labour provided by immigrants was necessary for capitalism to survive = periods of boom and slump which require the reserve army of labour to be hired and fired
- e.g. WWII
- Divide and Rule tactic: working class divided- immigrants at bottom of WC and indigenous white population at the bottom
- e.g. WWII
- Evaluation: Not all ethnic minorities are disadvantaged in the UK. Immigration laws now mean that economic immigrants have high level skills
- Reserve army of labour provided by immigrants was necessary for capitalism to survive = periods of boom and slump which require the reserve army of labour to be hired and fired
- Cox: Race is a human creation, it was developed at the start of capitalism and was used to justify exploitation.
- Miles: Status and Class should be used alongside each other- ethnic minorities are seen as culturally and socially different= racism
- some ethnic minorities also set themselves apart by celebrating their own cultural uniqueness
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- Miles: Status and Class should be used alongside each other- ethnic minorities are seen as culturally and socially different= racism
- some ethnic minorities also set themselves apart by celebrating their own cultural uniqueness
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- some ethnic minorities also set themselves apart by celebrating their own cultural uniqueness
- Miles: Status and Class should be used alongside each other- ethnic minorities are seen as culturally and socially different= racism
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- some ethnic minorities also set themselves apart by celebrating their own cultural uniqueness
- Ethnic inequalities are used to divide workers so they're easier to control
- Functionalism
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