Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Neo
Marxism
and ethnicity
- Understand its not all
about economics as
argued by Traditional
Marxism
- Traditional marxism suggests ethnic
minorities to be unified with the working
class (Cox) and subject to low hourly pay
leading to their exploitation
- Modood: its pointles to talk about all
ethnic groups as a whole (diverse and
fragmented) and they're no longer
victims and all experience different
advantages and disadvantages
- Miles suggests that culture further plays a part in the
inequalities suffered by ethnic minorities as
minorities class structure is the same as the normal
hierarchical class structure, but although they're
there, they experience inequality as they are treated
differently, creating racialised class fractions
- Miles even suggests
'white flight' occurs
whereby as ethnic
minorities start
entering a certain
career, white
employees will leave
- Weberians would argue
homosocial reproduction may
be taking place whereby as
Asians enter a certain career
they result in employing people
with similar characteristics (such
as race, through unintentional or
intentional racism)
- Functionalists would argue ethnic
minorities are treated differently due
to their values and norms being seen
as deviants, which encourages
assimilation, the fact that there are
ethnic minorities in the middle and
upper classes shows they have
successfully assimilatied
- Acknowledges different minorities in the class
structure but doesn't answer why indian and chinese
are disproportionately in the middle class whilst
Bangladeshi and BAC are in the working class
- Though still place
meaning on economics
- Hall et al 'Policing the Crisis'
study as capitalism creates
inequalities for ethnic
minorities to distract others
from structural problems and
stop questioning hegemonic
values
- 1970s hegmonic crisis, rioting and unemployment. So
the government created a moral panic of BAC crime
and mugging when it wasn't rising or even a black
crime. This justified militant policing and the creation of
the folk devils reasserted morality principles
- Durkheim: ignoring positive function, the labeling of
folk devils prevents anomie and chaos as it reaffirms
boundaries of behaviour
- Supported by Castles
and Kossack: people
blame ethnic
minorities for taking
jobs, when its actually
structural problems
- Relationships with ethnic minorities is a
result of the economy, so when the
economy booms, there race relations are
good but when it slumps they are bad
- Solomos: over simplified, as racism
preceeds capitalist booms and slumps
- Can see it playing out in
contemporary society
- Economy: as we go through recession a
moral panic and 'folk devil' had been
created about polish people as there is
idea they are 'taking our jobs'
- Race relations have worsened and
UKIP have secured 18%
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- Deviant image of their culture being portrayed
- Daily Mail in trouble after 50
anti polish headlines in one
month