Minority

the studies. Every study predominantly featured Caucasian participants; other racial groups were limited in their representation. One factor to consider is that Caucasians on average are more likely to seek mental health care than other minority groups; minority groups do not seek mental health service due to limited access and poorer quality of care. This may explain why samples are predominantly composed of Caucasians. The issue still remains, though, that the data from these studies may not…

Mass incarceration has created racial discrepancies among those being incarcerated. Many studies have been conducted to study the causes of these discrepancies and almost all of these studies have found that African Americans and other minority groups accounts for the vast majority of the prison population. In 1991 Albonetti found on her study that African Americans are more likely to be convicted and received longer sentences than their Caucasian counterparts (Kamalu, 2010, p. 2). Another…

mainly for convenience and familiarity (Healey & O’Brien, 2015). Over the course of this semester, I have learned numerous terms, concepts, and theories concerning minority groups in the United States. Of those things, the most intriguing and eye opening information that struck a chord inside of me concerned the stereotypes that affect minority groups, in addition to the prejudice and discrimination these group members face. Before this course, I had heard many stereotypes, joked about and ran…

voluntary one, the non-response rate of the 2011 (NHS) census is significantly higher than those from the previous 2006 census (Statistics Canada, 2011). In addition to an overall lower response rate, certain population groups, such as the visible minority groups, are less likely to respond to the survey. As a result, since categorizing people by ethnicity and race can be instrumental for the state in keeping control over groups, there is no way to determine their respective response rates…

Orphan Trains The main point of the documentary on orphan trains is child welfare and the method that was used in 1859 where children from an urban city that were homeless and poor were gathered up and put in homes and the idea of Charles Lauren Brace was to put them on a train and find good farming Christian families from the western states to raise these children. Some of the misconceptions that were faced with this idea was that the child will be better off in the homes that they are placed…

If we provide more hands on studies for the children of color or minority at the lower grade levels, and spark there interest in STEM, (STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education. We focus on these areas together not only because the skills and knowledge in each discipline are essential…

Jakie Deily Organizational Assessment Purpose of Agency The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people survive and rebuild their lives in the face of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. They are currently serving people whose lives have been upended by war, natural disasters, and conflict. Their work is multifaceted as they work in countries where people need support to recover from a crisis, respond to help countries stabilize and assist people in rebuilding their lives, and…

Britain The British general elections are archetypal of what occurs in a majoritarian election. Minority parties are considerably less able to be influential in parliament - the analysis that will be done through the case study of Britain will be on the disproportionate underrepresentation of minority parties in British parliament. To understand why there is an underrepresentation of minority parties it is necessary to analyse the British electoral system, first past the post. The country is…

Risk factors relating to criminology are influences that can cause an individual to be more likely to commit offending behaviours compared to others. There are many factors that can lead to juvenile delinquency. Key risk factors include social influences such as family and peers or communal influences such as school policies and the area that they live in. However how much of these of these risk factors actually lead to offending behaviour in adolescence and what risk factor may have the biggest…

‘racial microagressions’ that are categorized as microinvalidaiton, microinsult, and microassult. Microinvalidation was described as often unconscious behaviors or comments that may nullify or negate feelings and experiential reality of one of a minority race. Examples given were ‘color blindness’, ‘alien in own land’, ‘myth of meritocracy’, and ‘denial of individual racism’. The second form was called microinsult, and it includes behavior such as ‘ascription of intelligence’, ‘second class…