Describe how status and power can affect equality, and how continual discriminatory practice can marginalize individual and groups within society.

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Leanne knott 12RMO

Describe how status and power can affect equality, and how continual discriminatory practice can marginalize individual and groups within society.

Discrimination is something in which everybody will come across nearly everyday of their lives. Whether it will be in the way that people can treat each other as they are not equal, or sometimes like they are not human. Discrimination can be found anywhere, like on a street or in a job. There is discrimination against the mentally and physically challenged, against people of different cultures, and people of the opposite sex, just to name a few. Discrimination may not make a large impact on someone’s life instantly, but continual discriminatory practice can have devastating effects. It can actually come to the stage in which it can destroy the quality of someone’s life. Discrimination is described by Maslow in his human needs pyramid. It says that discrimination can leave an individual lacking in self-esteem, and refuse the chance for them to be able to self-actualise.  Individuals can too feel that they are inferior in society, the can feel devalued, excluded, unsafe and it can also be physically damaging for ones health.

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There have been laws enforced to try to stop discrimination, however there is nothing to prevent discrimination within society. It is still the case that different races and women are seen to be the inferior groups of society.  This has been demonstrated when women receive less pay than a male, for the same job. Or a black male has a higher qualification and would be best suited to a specific job, but a white male gets offered the job because he is ‘white’.  Those who suffer from a disability can also find themselves at a disadvantage within society.

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