P3 Unit 6- Explain Factors That May Influence the Quality of Opportunity for Individuals

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P3 Unit 6- Explain Factors that may influence the quality of opportunity for individuals In this essay I will be explaining Factors that may influence the quality of opportunity for individuals such as social class, age and gender.There are different types of discrimination. Someone could have a prejudice opinion towards a group of different people which could be because of age, gender, race, ethnicity, social class, religious beliefs, sexuality, appearance, secular beliefs and disability and other reasons. Prejudice is unfavourable opinions, feelings or attitude of dislike towards another individual or group of people and these are usually unreasonable and unfair judgements. There are four different types of discrimination unfair, direct, indirect and positive discrimination. Unfair discrimination is usually when someone treated wrongly compared to another individual. An example of this would be not considered for a job role because they was younger than another applicant even though they might have just as much experience and qualifications as the applicant. Direct discrimination is when someone is rude or treats them as if they’re not a person as well, this could be because they are different. An example of this could be when some doesn’t dress the same as others so get called names in school. This type of discrimination isn’t hard to prove if there are witnesses present or if it has been heard about by others. Indirect discrimination is rules that may marginalise different groups of people. Stereotyping and labelling is usually a fixed opinion which generalizes beliefs about a particular group of people. An example of this is when people talk to the elderly loudly and also slowly they could find this patronising because they think that because she’s old that she is deaf and less able then others. Social class is a class system. Your social class is
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