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In such matters as Sunday observance and liquor licensing laws, it is the more puritanical Protestant outlook which prevails; the Protestant churches are influential in this respect, but there is a wider Protestant feeling that a stand must be taken against Catholic values. 58 This ‘instinctive’ attitude was reflected in the systematic discrimination against Catholics which was evident in local government, in employment practices and in the allocation of housing. These institutionalised forms of unequal treatment lasted for the fifty-year life of the Stormont parliament.
From a sociological point of view, what is important is whether that difference in skin or hair colour is institutionalised in terms of difference in opportunities and material resources, and whether people categorise each other on the basis of that difference in a way which has significant consequences. Race is important in these terms in many countries, while hair colour generally is not. Yet, race has not always been a means of categorisation in this way. Indeed, the concept of ‘race’ is a relatively recent invention in the English language.
However, while these factors undoubtedly help to account for the contrast in the speed with which change has taken place in South Africa and Northern Ireland, both these territories have undergone rapid social change. It is perhaps most accurate to talk about transformation in the South African case and transition in the case of Northern Ireland during the period on which this book focuses, the early to mid-1990s. In South Africa, this period saw a transformation in political structures which began to shape the rest of the social struc- 05RESC-01(15-46) 31/5/99 4:04 PM Page 19 Under Siege 19 ture.