Paper 2
Social inequalities: Ethnicity
, Ethnic Concepts/sociologists/points
inequalities
in:
1. Acceptance
- 50% of people who apply to a job with an ethnic sounding name get
rejected
- Concrete ceiling: barriers in work & empl.
2. Wealth/pay gap which can lead to poverty
- median total wealth for White British households in Great Britain was £
314,000. BA households had the lowest median wealth at £34,300.
- Rowlingson & Mckay: white British in managerial occupations had
Work & greater wealth than other ethnic groups
Employment
3. Low self-esteem/worth
- Song: Chinese graduates often settled to work in family business
- Rex & Tomilson: workplace socialises ‘false - class consciousness’
where they were placed in a "black underclass" and misled about their
true position in the economic and social hierarchy.
4. Limited opportunities
- Weber: elite exert ‘social closure’
5.Conditions
- Barron & Norris: P & S labour markets
1.Pay gap
- repeat from w & e
Income, 2. Poverty
wealth & - Flaherty: one of reasons for p rates being high is concentration of
Poverty ethnic minorities in low skilled and paid jobs
- Pakistanis are over 3 x more likely to live in deprived areas than White
people (ONS)
1. Over-Policing of Ethnic Minorities
- Black male youths are 17x more likely to be stopped in London than
white males
- Phillips and Bowling argue that ethnic minorities, especially Black
individuals, face institutional racism in policing, leading to
disproportionate targeting
Crime 2. Higher Conviction and Sentencing Rates
Social inequalities: Ethnicity
, Ethnic Concepts/sociologists/points
inequalities
in:
1. Acceptance
- 50% of people who apply to a job with an ethnic sounding name get
rejected
- Concrete ceiling: barriers in work & empl.
2. Wealth/pay gap which can lead to poverty
- median total wealth for White British households in Great Britain was £
314,000. BA households had the lowest median wealth at £34,300.
- Rowlingson & Mckay: white British in managerial occupations had
Work & greater wealth than other ethnic groups
Employment
3. Low self-esteem/worth
- Song: Chinese graduates often settled to work in family business
- Rex & Tomilson: workplace socialises ‘false - class consciousness’
where they were placed in a "black underclass" and misled about their
true position in the economic and social hierarchy.
4. Limited opportunities
- Weber: elite exert ‘social closure’
5.Conditions
- Barron & Norris: P & S labour markets
1.Pay gap
- repeat from w & e
Income, 2. Poverty
wealth & - Flaherty: one of reasons for p rates being high is concentration of
Poverty ethnic minorities in low skilled and paid jobs
- Pakistanis are over 3 x more likely to live in deprived areas than White
people (ONS)
1. Over-Policing of Ethnic Minorities
- Black male youths are 17x more likely to be stopped in London than
white males
- Phillips and Bowling argue that ethnic minorities, especially Black
individuals, face institutional racism in policing, leading to
disproportionate targeting
Crime 2. Higher Conviction and Sentencing Rates
