NDLI: Engineering the Competition: Affirmative Action as Subsidized Mobility

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bankston, Carl L.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Equality of opportunity, or equality of individuals in a competition to reach unequal positions, has emerged as a fundamental cultural value over the course of American history. However, the ability of individuals to achieve desired occupations and statuses is limited by the structure of available opportunities and by the social origins of individuals. Affirmative action is an effort to engineer equality of opportunity by government intervention to promote the upward mobility of individuals with disadvantaged backgrounds. In the past, this effort has been directed primarily at compensating for the historical consequences of slavery and racial discrimination, but more recently socio-economic affirmative action has taken on the task of compensating for all disadvantages of social origin. This attempt faces several serious problems, though. It assumes that government is capable of continually re-engineering the competition. Beyond that, it aims at directing everyone toward a relatively small number of socially desired positions, promoting chronic shortages in the less-desired but necessary occupations.
Starting Page	312
Ending Page	321
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01472011
Journal	Society
Volume Number	47
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	19364725
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2010-05-26
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Affirmative action Mobility Socio-economic status Equal opportunity Inequality Political Science Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science

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