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Discrimination Broken Down
Title: Discrimination Broken Down
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1197 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Discrimination Broken Down
Discrimination Broken Down
Why should a company have to lower its standards of hiring the best people? Why should a university not try to recruit the top students in the country? They shouldn¡¯t have too. However, Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, would like them to change their standards in order to avoid the appearance of discrimination. In his article entitled, From Individualism to Structural …showed first 75 words of 1197 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1197 total…or university who has high standards for admission or hiring is not practicing discrimination. Now if they lowered their standards to accommodate blacks and Hispanics, they would then be practicing discrimination against whites. Pincus succeeds in breaking down discrimination into two types, individual and institutional. He even offers solutions as to how they can be eliminated. However, his attempt in proving that it also exists on another entirely different level, structural, is a weak argument.
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