Sociology- Material deprivation and ethnicity
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- Created on: 19-01-19 13:24
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- Material deprivation and Ethnicity
- What?
- Lacking physical necessities that are seen as essential or normal for life in todays society
- Guy palmer 2012
- Almost half of all ethnic minority children live in low income households
- Ethnic minorities are almost twice as likely to be unemployed compared to whites
- Ethic minorities are around three times as likely to be homeless
- Almost half of bangladeshi and pakistani workers earned under £7 an hour compared to only a 1/4 of whites
- Why?
- Many live in economically depressed areas with high unemployment and low wages
- Cultural factors such as tradition of Purdah in some muslim households prevents women from working
- A lack of language skills and foreign qualifications not being recognised by UK employers
- Asylum seekers may not be allowed to take work
- Racial discrimination in housing
- Class override ethnicity
- Even those Indian and Chinese pupils who are materially deprived do better than most
- In 2011 86% of chinese girls who received FSM achieved 5 or more GCSEs, compared to 65% white girls not receiving free school meals
- What?
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