Understanding inequalities - majority and minority groups and disability

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Direct discrimination, associative discrimination, Discrimination by perception, indirect discrimination, harassment and victimisation are all different types of discrimination specified by?
The Equality Act 2010
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Who cited the following quote ‘it is the white, heterosexual, male majority with access to forms of power (particularly political power) in our community who have established and who continue to define what is considered culturally typical or norm
Clements and Spinks
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Who created the poem ‘We and They’, with the line ‘all the people like us are We, and everyone else is They’?
Rudyard Kipling
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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
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Which two sports persons accidently broadcasted sexist comments about Karen Brady?
Andy Gray and Richard Keys
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In what year did Kathrine Switzer run the Boston Marathon supported by her coach Arnie Briggs?
1967
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Eugenics is?
The idea of improving the genetic makeup of the human species- through often controversial methods
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In what year did the Labour government create the welfare state?
1945
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In which year introduced the NHS?
1948
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The perspective that disability is not just a medical issue but a political issue and human rights issue, and that the issue is disabling barriers is argued by which movement?
The Disability Movement
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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
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Who states that a child is disabled if ‘he is blind, deaf or dumb, or suffers from a mental disorder of any kind, or is substantially or permanently handicapped by illness injury or congenital deformity, or any such disability as may be described
Children’s Act 1989
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The social model proposes that?
Due to the way people with impairments are viewed people with disabilities are often frequently discriminated against
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17) The World Health organisation’s definition of disability was rewritten by who in 1976?
The union of the physically impaired against segregation
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What do Beckett and Taylor 2010 discuss can hold people with disabilities back?
Being treated as if they were infants
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The following quote from Clements and Spinks (2009:121) ‘we would go as far as to say it is the way that the able bodied majority arranges the built environment which disables people’ refers to what?
The disabling environment
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In 2012 who was initially refused to board a public train on the Isle of Wight due to his metal wheelchair?
Geoff Holt
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Who is Susan Archibald?
A disability rights campaigner who lost her leg and sub sequentially her job taking her employer to court
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Who cited the following quote ‘it is the white, heterosexual, male majority with access to forms of power (particularly political power) in our community who have established and who continue to define what is considered culturally typical or norm

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Clements and Spinks

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Who created the poem ‘We and They’, with the line ‘all the people like us are We, and everyone else is They’?

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

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Which two sports persons accidently broadcasted sexist comments about Karen Brady?

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