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Chapter Ten: Discrimination

Delve into the ethical complexities of discrimination, including affirmative action, quota hiring, and reverse discrimination. Explore various perspectives on preferential treatment and class-based interventions in addressing societal inequalities.

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Chapter Ten: Discrimination

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  1. Chapter Ten:Discrimination Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings (10th ed.) Julie C. Van Camp, Jeffrey Olen, Vincent Barry Cengage Learning/Wadsworth

  2. Key Terminology • Affirmative action: positive measures beyond neutral nondiscriminatory and merit-hiring employment practices • Preferential hiring: employment practice to give special consideration to people from groups traditionally victimized by discrimination • Quota hiring: court-ordered remedy setting mandated hiring goals to correct documented history of discrimination • Reverse discrimination: unfair treatment of a majority member

  3. Discrimination: its nature and forms • Intentional individual discrimination • Unintentional individual discrimination • Intentional institutional discrimination • Unintentional institutional discrimination

  4. Evidence of discrimination • Statistical evidence • Practices and policies • Attitudes and assumptions

  5. “The Justification of Reverse Discrimination”Tom L. Beauchamp • Defense of reverse discrimination • Eradication of pervasive discrimination in hiring and promotion requires enforced goals and quotas • Goals and quotas serve corporate interests as well as the public interest

  6. “A Defense of Programs of Preferential Treatment”Richard Wasserstrom • Defense of preferential hiring by attacking two major criticism • “Intellectual inconsistency” of opposing discrimination in the past but favoring it now in preferential treatment? • Different social conditions make these reconcilable • Ignoring individual qualifications? • We do not choose only the most qualified in many situations • Why do we assume the best qualified deserve all of society’s benefits?

  7. “Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified”Lisa Newton • Reverse discrimination undermines the concept of equal justice under law for all citizens • What counts as a minority? What majority is willing to give something up to benefit those minorities? • What would count as restitution? When is enough enough?

  8. “Class, Not Race”Richard D. Kahlenberg • Preferences by class, not race, would promote the goals of the Civil Rights Act • Definitions of class or disadvantage • parental income, education, occupation, net worth, quality of secondary education, neighborhood, family • Objections: • Racial discrimination still a problem • Class preferences stigmatizing • Treats people as members of groups, not individuals • Will not yield diverse student body • Would cause resentment

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