Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Ethnicity Inequality theories - Coggle Diagram
Ethnicity Inequality theories
Functionalism
Ethnic inequalities exist because ethnic minorities do not assimilate into the dominant culture.
Evidence is this idea that assimilation theory described by Patterson
Immigrants cause a cultural clash in society as they stray from the norms and values of the Dominant culture, this often causes self segregation and the White Flight
The Theory ignores multiculturalism and states that Culture is static and fixed while this is untrue a prime example is chicken Tikka masala
Ministry of Justice says that Black people in 2012 faced longer prison sentences than white people for the same crime
Neo-Marxism - Stuart Hall, media uses black people as a moral panic around Black people and label them as criminals.
DFE in 2019 found exclusion rate for black Caribbean pupils was 5x higher than those of White British origin
Black Feminism
EDIT in media and society
Invisibility
Tokenism
Denial
Erasure
Dominant culture Supresses weaker culture e.g., Welsh children punished for speaking Welsh
however less examples in modern Media and progress has been made
New Right,
Ethnic inequalities exist because ethnic minorities do not assimilate into the dominant culture.
Problems within migrant groups is relatively high single parenthood and cause their own problems by not assimilating into british society quickly
clear attempt to blame victims of discrimination and racism because they have 'failed'
Marxism
Divide and conquer theory
Bourgeoise split the proletariate to stop a revolution as they are easier to control if they are fighting each other.
Boom and bust ethnic employees are the first to be laid off
rise in UKIP shows that Ethnic minorities are still being scapegoated
Neo-Marxism
Castles and Kosack, dual labour market weakens the position of the workers with a reserve army of labour to prevent white workers from demanding high wages
Significantly higher levels of ethnic minority unemployment during times of recession supporting the reserve army of labour
the extent for which working class groups are racist has often been overlooked