The following essay will be discussing the extent to which social policy has tackled social divisions by mainly focusing on a group of people that belong to the same cultural background or share the same traditions and cultural values. . Social policy inspects social services and the welfare state. Its main goal is to tackle social issues that occur within societies, those issues usually involve an infringement to our human rights or an interpretation of what is ‘normal’ behaviour to one that deviates from the norm. Social divisions are one of the major social issues that social policy tries to deal with. Individuals who experience social differences are commonly judged based upon their roles, social opportunities, cultural norms and values, expectations as well as their living standards. Despite the fact there are many factors that lead to those differences one of the universally known factors is ethnicity. The end of the World War II is thought to be one of many reasons and one of the most significant ones that have caused an extreme increase in the inflow of immigrants (Gilfoyle et al. The National Archives). During this period the United Kingdom was struggling and was experiencing a labour ‘shortage’ therefore Britain was in need of immigrants who would be willing to do cheap labour that nobody else was willing to do Sivanandan (1976: 348) as cited by Glavanis (1999: 54). The whole idea of immigrants doing cheap labour automatically directs us to think that an act of exploitation and discrimination must be involved. For many immigrants this also meant that they had to settle in areas which were considered to be the slums with poor housing whereas white British citizens were moving into new housing estates Sivanandan (1976) ... ... middle of paper ... ...6) as cited by Glaughlin et al. (2002). Works Cited http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/origins-commonwealth-immigration.htm http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/brave_new_world/immigration.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Immigrants_Act_1968 http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/UNITED%20KINGDOM/RACERELATIONSACT1976RRA-EN.htm http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/seanthomas/100229154/the-murder-of-stephen-lawrence-and-the-strange-case-of-the-missing-wikipedia-entries/ http://www.bug-ev.org/en/topics/focus-areas/dossiers/police-investigation-of-racially-motivated-crimes/the-macpherson-report.html (CRE 1985; DfE 1992; Bourne et al. 1994; Blyth and Miller 1996) as cited by Glaughlin et al. (2002) (McGlaughlin et al. 2002 (Büro zur Umsetzung von Gleichbehandlung, 2011). (The Telegraph, 2013) (Cohen and Kennedy, 2000)
... many immigrants faced discrimination, thus leaving them no choice but to live in the slums of some areas and try fight their way up to success.
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Before the Great Depression hit, immigration was at about 169,000 people in 1926, but after the Depression immigration went down to about 12,000 people in 1935. The reason they went so low is because the government, stopped allowing so many immigrants from entering the country. Plus, since most immigrants before the depression were farmers (who went into huge debt when the market crashed), they could not afford to pay off the equipment they bought. So police officers went to the farms and evicted anyone, who could not pay off their
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Therefore it has become a source of division within the working class that only works in favor for the bourgeois and capitalist. On the there hand, Ethnicity has a wider concept than race but still can be useful and counterproductive. To begin, one obvious reason why ethnicity is useful because it allows for other cultures, customs to express themselves. Secondly, promotes multiculturalism and diversity. Be that as it may, it is counterproductive and overlapping because the systematic distinctions within ethnicity lead to equality and inequality in society Therefore resulting to racial supremacy and privilege. Given these points, in this paper, I will discuss in details the ways in which the concepts of race and ethnicity are useful and how they are counterproductive with regards to different authors; Peter Wade, Robert Milles, Etienne Balibar, David Nirebeng, Roman Grosfoguel and Joan
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Throughout this assignment a variety of terminology will be used, first it is appropriate to define what the term ‘Social Policy’ means. Social policy can be defined in different ways and ‘there is no established or agreed definition of social policy’ (Baldock et, al., 1999:21). From reading different books on social policy, the author’s understanding of social policy is it provides guidelines to deal with social problems . Social problems are matters which direct...
Throughout lecture 5-9b we get introduced to Social Inequalities and explore the opportunities and rewards that are disbursed to groups and individuals. Trying to understand inequality patterns based on different varieties of sources. Through these lectures we focus how sociologist define social class, gender, age, region, race, and ethnicity. We also began to learn about the variables that affect someone’s access to opportunities and resources. We have explored how those resources and available opportunities are closely connected to the theory Structural functionalist by looking at the privilege and power in a society. Another important aspect is the study of Social stratification, which is an understanding of how those patterns of inequalities are maintained and challenged. We should have a basic understanding of how societies differ based on inequalities that they show and different varieties of inequalities that come together and reinforce one another. By that, this section is dissect how race, classs, gender, and age come together through structure of a society. Throughout these we also take a look at deviance and conformity. We get up close to the sociological definition of deviance, and emphasizing the importance its social reaction in societies. We begin to understand what forces society to allow or even encourage breakdowns of social order and disorganization of socialization and social control. By that, this section is dissect how race, class, gender, and age come together through structure of a society. We have been taught to answer questions like: what actions are defined as actually threatening to social order or deviant and who get to be the judge? Also what sorts of things lead to individuals to “deviant actions” a...
Though the United States is home to many immigrants, controversy surrounds the issue of immigrants in the United States. The United States in a melting pot of various backgrounds and cultures, yet it is hard for all to merge into acceptance of one another. The first chapter of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and class covers stratification, prejudice and discrimination, and inequality.
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