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1. Debating Affirmative Action 1. Debating Affirmative Action
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2. The Social Egalitarian Justification of Affirmative Action 2. The Social Egalitarian Justification of Affirmative Action
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3. The Ladder and the Maze: Two Sociologies of Inequality 3. The Ladder and the Maze: Two Sociologies of Inequality
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4. Affirmative Action’s Transformative Potential 4. Affirmative Action’s Transformative Potential
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5. Conclusion: Affirmative Action and Egalitarian Politics 5. Conclusion: Affirmative Action and Egalitarian Politics
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Notes Notes
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Works Cited Works Cited
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9 Contributing to a Society of Equals: Affirmative Action beyond the “Distributive Paradigm”
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Published:November 2020
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Abstract
According to the “distributive paradigm”, justice and equality are treated as having primarily to do with what people get in terms of goods and resources. So far, egalitarian justifications of affirmative action have remained largely within this paradigm. The paper explores the potential of shifting the terrain towards a social or relational equality framework. In a first step, several kinds of affirmative action are distinguished. Then, the pursuit of social equality is introduced as a potential rationale for affirmative action that may be stronger than justifications resting on claims of distributive egalitarianism, rectificatory compensation, or diversity. Third, I turn on sociological work on inequality in order to clarify the project of transforming inegalitarian into egalitarian social relations. In a fourth and final section, I discuss to what extent different affirmative action measures may have a transformative impact on social structures and thereby contribute to achieving more equal social relations, as opposed to merely mitigating distributive imbalances.
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