Understanding inequalities - majority and minority groups and disability

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  • Created by: RacheM
  • Created on: 28-03-16 21:22

1. In what ways do majority groups according to Clements and Spinks control and power minorities?

  • Exaggerate difference, attach labels, impose values, hold power, stereotype, impose traditions, define what’s normal and make rules
  • Impose values and traditions
  • Marginalise minorities
  • Discriminate against individuals considered different thus gaining power and control
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2. Which poet is famous for the following ‘and if I laugh at any mortal thing, tis that I may not weep’?

  • Lord Byron
  • Katie Price
  • Thompson
  • Rudyard Kipling

3. Which Conservative MP proposed that disabled people should be able to offer themselves to prospective employers at a lower rate of pay to improve employability?

  • Tim Collins
  • Den Dover
  • Philip Davies
  • David Cameron

4. Who states the following ‘someone who, on account of injury, disease or congenital deformity, is subsequently handicapped in obtaining or keeping employment, or in undertaking work… of a kind which would, apart from that injury, disease or deform

  • Disabled Person’s Employment Act 1944
  • The Equality Act 2010
  • SENDA 2001
  • Children’s Act 1989

5. What do Beckett and Taylor 2010 discuss can hold people with disabilities back?

  • Being treated as if they were infants
  • Isolation
  • Discrimination and marginalisation
  • Prejudice
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