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Explain briefly and give two example of what is meant by positive discrimination.


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... A2 Sociology Qa. Explain briefly and give two example of what is meant by positive discrimination. A campaign began in California to outlaw positive discrimination, in Britain men are not doing as well as they use to. Men still earn more than women but the gap is narrowing and in education girls are overtaking boys. Qb. What do sociologist mean by an 'underclass'. The upper, middle and working class have always been identified into sociology but a further class is increasingly identified which is the underclass sociologists like Charles Murray argue that the underclass suffer from cycle of poverty. They enter the cycle of poverty; they live in the poorest condition and lowest status in every social sphere. In the labour market the underclass are offered the lowest pay, the worst working condition and the lowest degree of security e.g. black people are over represented in the underclass because of the nature of

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