Lesson video

Hello, welcome back to our second lesson in the scheme of work, are people treated equally in UK society? Today's lesson, it's going to be all about discrimination and prejudice as well as in high school shades this is quite a sensitive subject.

So this lesson is going to cover issues around prejudice and discrimination.

We would recommend that before you start today's lesson, that you talk to a trusted adult, or have a trusted adult nearby, before you start the lesson.

Okay.

So all you need for today's lesson is exactly the same as the last lesson.

Just need a pen, paper, somewhere quiet to work, so you can hear what am going to talk to you about.

So I'm just going to give you a moment or two, just to get all that sorted out for me.

Excellent.

So hopefully you've got a pen and paper already to start today.

So what we're going to look at today is, we're going to look at what are the key terms connected to equality? What are the differences between prejudice and discrimination and how does discrimination play a part in everyday life.

So, just to recap what we did in the last lesson, which of these is not a protected characteristic? Am going to give you few moments to write down your answer.

Hopefully you all got that, right? The right answer is option three, and is height.

All of the others are protected characteristics underneath the Equality Act of 2010.

So just to recap about what we looked at last lesson, this is the definition of equality.

So equality is all about ensuring that every individual has an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives and talents.

It's also the belief that no one should have a poorer.

So let's start again, is also the belief that, no one should have poorer life chances because of the way they were born, where they come from, what they believe or whether they have a disability.

So, when we look at this and I think this picture is really, really useful too, when we started looking at these kinds of issues, when we start thinking about that equality and equity.

Okay.

So, the difference between equality and equity is really important.

And we feel this is something that we really need to emphasise.

Equality is giving everybody the same opportunities.

So if you look at that first picture, everybody has the same size crate.

Okay.

However, for equity, to make sure everybody is completely treated equally, sometimes people might need a little bit more help.

Okay.

So if you look at the crate, the smallest person needs a little bit more help to be able to see over the fence.

Okay.

So, prejudice.

Is one of the key terms for today's lesson.

Prejudice, means pre-treating somebody.

So, its when we form an opinion about somebody without having all the information for all the facts.

So, sometimes people show prejudice towards other people.

So what I want you to do, is give some examples of this.

Okay.

So an example, people might prejudice against somebody because of their accent.

So you might have heard my accent, I've got like a kind of a Midland's accent, and you might make a judgement about me.

But try to think of some other examples where people might form a prejudice where they might prejudge somebody.

Excellent.

I hope you've had a really good go at that task.

So, I'm just going to give you a little bit feedback here.

So, what you might've included, the clothes they wear, their appearance, what type of phone you own, which football team you support, your accent or somebody's accent, or where you, okay.

Or people may be prejudice to other people because of their sex, to their religion, their sexuality, their race or to their disability.

Hopefully you'll remember they're all protective characteristics.

And they're all things that we looked at in the last lesson.

So, what I want you to do, is try and work out this riddle.

Okay.

So a father and son have a car accident, and are both badly hurt.

They are both taken to separate hospitals.

When the boy is taken in for an operation, the surgeon or the doctor says, "I can't do the surgery because this is my son." Just pause the video and just have a minute to think about, how is this possible? Okay.

It's possible because the surgeon is the boy's mother.

I really, really like this riddle because every single class I've ever taught it to including my A level sociology students always get this wrong.

They always start thinking and overthinking this and thinking off and downstairs, actually the doctor is a woman.

Okay.

And the reason why people often get that wrong is this, they thought they prejudged.

They automatically assume that the doctor is going to be a man.

So, it's quite a common one.

Most people I know when I, when I go through that riddle with them, get the wrong answer.

So prejudice can lead to a stereotype.

And a stereotype is a mistaken idea or belief people may have about a group, about something in common.

For example, their religion, their age and, or their nationality.

Stereotyping is a type of prejudice that ignores the differences between people.

So again, we've got another task for you to complete.

So, am just going to explain the task and I want you to pause the video, to complete it.

So, what I want you to do in full sentences, what is a stereotype? And explain an example of a stereotype for me.

Brilliant.

I hope you've had a good go at that task, and this is the answers I got to that task.

So what is a stereotype? A stereotype is an overly simplistic view about person or group of people.

These are often based on prejudice.

An example of a stereotype, and a really common example of a stereotype is girls can't play football as well as boys.

And this stereotype is clearly false as there are lots of excellent female footballers, the English female football team got to the semifinals of the world cup.

I know they will all be better at football than me.

And I know my son plays football.

He's playing against the girl's team and lots of the girls playing on that girl's team are better than the boys team.

Okay.

So it's a really common stereotype is often not true.

This leads us into thinking about what is discrimination.

Its quite an important concept when we're looking at equality.

So, what we're going to, can you explain, how discrimination is different to prejudice? A simple way to remember the difference between prejudice and discrimination is that prejudice has something to do with someone's attitude and discrimination is to do with how they act.

Prejudice, is forming an unfavourable opinion or feeling about a person or a group of people.

In theory, it's possible for somebody to be prejudiced without anybody else knowing about it.

So it can just be what somebody is thinking.

Okay.

You might want to pause the video now, just to note that down.

It is really, really important that you know the difference between them.

Okay.

But, we are now going to look at how discrimination differs from this.

So, the key thing here is that gender pay gap, okay.

So the gender pay gap, we've just talked about football.

And when you look at the combined salary of the top seven football leagues, is equivalent to a single male footballer, which is Neymar.

So if you think about Neymar, please person on demand, thanks for Brazil.

But his wages alone are the same as every single female footballer in the top seven female football leagues.

And that's quite shocking, that will be hundreds and hundreds of professional females footballers have ever been paid the same as Neymar.

Another example of discrimination, is paying women lower wage than a man, when they are just doing the same job, this is called the gender pay gap.

So, again, it might be useful to pause this video, after I've explained these concepts fruit to you.

So discrimination can be defined as treating somebody unfairly because of their characteristics.

This is some time, this is sometimes because of prejudice.

Discrimination can take many different forms that these include direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, and it can take the form of harassment and victimisation.

And so, as I've just said, you might want to pause the video here, just to note some of these key words down.

So, the types of discrimination, we have direct discrimination.

This is when somebody is treated unfairly because of a protected characteristics, such as sex or race.

For example, if somebody is not offered a promotion because they're a woman and the job goes to a less qualified man.

Okay.

Indirect discrimination is where there's a practise policy or rule, which applies to everybody in the same way, but it has a worse effect on some people than others.

The Equality Act, says it puts you at a particular disadvantage.

Harassment is unwanted behaviour that you might find offensive, or it makes you feel intimidated or humiliated.

It can happen on its own or alongside other forms of discrimination.

Victimisation such is, victimisation is when someone treats you badly because you complain about your discrimination, and the discrimination that's happening.

So, what I want you to do, again I want you to pause the video after I've explained this task to you.

And I want you to try and find out which forms of discrimination have shown in this study.

So, a year 10 student has been told to work at home to prepare for her GCSEs.

Her school has decided that her hair is against the uniform policy.

The policy says that Afro style hair, must be a reasonable size and length.

The student and her mother felt this was unfair as other students were not prevented from going to school during this important time.

They also felt it was unfair because she, she was being told her hair was not to reasonable size, when this would have not been something that would have been told to a different student.

Hey, so what types of discrimination is shown in this case? So, pause the video here, try and work that out for me.

Brilliant.

So I hope you've had a really good go at doing that case study.

So, that case study illustrates two forms of discrimination.

Firstly, it shows indirect discrimination.

This is because indirect discrimination is when there's a policy or rule, which applies to everyone in the same way, has a worse effect on some people than others.

The student has been put at a disadvantage by the school's uniform policy and has been treated less favourably than others.

I think, that the case study also shows victimisation.

And this is when somebody treats you badly because you complain about discrimination.

When the student and that parent tried to complain about the uniform policy, they were told the student had to stay at home, and prepare for their GCSEs.

So, lots and lots of topics, lots of issues that we've covered in our lesson today, and it might have affected you.

So there are lots of places where you can go for help.

If you, if you feel like you need to support the discrimination or if you know somebody that needs support and you know somebody might be a victim of discrimination, and they need to get some extra support.

The places to go for support could be the Citizens Advice Bureau, Childine, ACAS for employment related issues and the Equality Advisory Support service.

Excellent.

SO, lots and lots of topics and lots of key terms that we've looked at today.

So what we've looked at today, are the key terms connected to equality.

We've looked at what are the difference between prejudice and discrimination.

And we've looked at a case study, about where discrimination can play a part in everyday life.

Fantastic.

So really well done, for going through today's lesson.

So, we're at the end of today's lesson now.

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Have a really good day.

And thank you for all your hard work.