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Handbook of Equality of Opportunity.

Springer Nature - Springer Education eBooks 2024 English International Available online

Springer Nature - Springer Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences eBooks 2024 Available online

Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Sardoč, Mitja.
Series:: Education Series
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (898 pages)
Edition:: 1st ed.
Place of Publication:: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2024.
Summary:: This Handbook provides an authoritative exposition of equality of opportunity.It presents the different concepts most commonly associated with equality of opportunity, and discusses the many problems dominating the controversies on equality of opportunity at the theoretical, policy or practical level.
Contents:: Intro; Preface; Contents; About the Editor-in-Chief; Contributors; 1 Equality of Opportunity: Pro et Contra; Equality and Opportunity: Some Preliminary Considerations; Making Sense of Equality of Opportunity; Conclusion and Further Directions; References; 2 Equality of Opportunity and Identity Politics; Introduction; Equality of Opportunity; Identity Politics; Affirmative Action for African Americans; Objections to Affirmative Action; Cultural Appropriation; Conclusion and Future Directions; 3 Equality of Opportunity, Appearance Discrimination, and Reaction Qualifications; Some Preliminaries; Appearance Features as Reaction Qualifications; Worsening Unjust Disadvantages; Deliberative Unfairness; The Value of Integration and the Legitimacy of Reaction Qualifications; 4 Equality of Opportunity and Religion; General or Specific Principles of Equality of Opportunity; Religion in Relation to Equality of Opportunity; Extrinsic Relations Between Religion and Equality; Intrinsic Relations Between Religion and Equality; Equality of Opportunity and Responsibility; The Barry-Parekh Debate; Fair Opportunity; Religion as a Basic Good; Arguments from Identification; Arguments from Conscience and Integrity; 5 Equal Opportunity; Basic Definitions; Terminology for Distributions; Equality; Justice; Distribution Modifiers; Equality of Proportions; Access Modes; Defining Equal Opportunity; The Meaning of Opportunity; The Early History of Equal Opportunity; Choice or Chance?; The Nature of the Qualifying Action; The Backtracing Issue; Equal Opportunity and Other Equalities.; The Insufficiency of Competitive Equality; Equal Opportunity as Anti-discrimination; Conclusion; 6 Democracy and Equality of Opportunity; The Foundations of Sortition; The Foundations of Election; Comparing Election and Sortition; Conflating Election and Sortition; Equal Opportunity True and False; 7 Political Decentralization and Equality of Opportunity; Inequality of Opportunity in a Decentralized Polity; The Benefits of Political Decentralization; Questions Raised by Political Decentralization; The Housing Market and Complex Equality; Taking Equality of Opportunity Seriously; 8 Global Equality of Opportunity and National Self-Determination; The Idea of Global Equality of Opportunity; Self-Determination-Based Objections to Global Equality of Opportunity; Making Space for Self-Determination in Global Equality of Opportunity; Accommodation; Reconciling Global Equality of Opportunity and Self-Determination; 9 Equality of Opportunity and Affirmative Action; Opportunity, Equality, and Scope; When Is Affirmative Action Compatible with Formal Equality of Opportunity?; Why Affirmative Action-Incompatible Forms of Formal Equality of Opportunity Are Not Required by Justice; Affirmative Action and the Promotion of Substantive Equality of Opportunity; Two Reasons Why Substantive Equality of Opportunity Is a Requirement of Justice; Objections; Equality of Opportunity and Other Justifications of Affirmative Action; 10 Affirmative Action: Exception to or Aspect of Equality?; Affirmative Action: A Controversial Concept; History of Affirmative Action; Different Terms and Understandings.; A Broad Range of Affirmative Action Measures; Different Dimensions of Affirmative Action; Typology of Affirmative Action; Active Nondiscrimination; Purposeful Inclusive Policies; Outreach; Preferential Treatment; Redefining Merit; Justifications and Criticisms of Affirmative Action; Main Justifications; Compensating Past Discrimination; Reducing Systemic Discrimination; Providing Role Models; Increasing Diversity; Main Points of Criticism; Reverse Discrimination; Mismatching; Violating Individual Merit; Stereotyping Beneficiaries; Affirmative Action and the Law; The United Nations Approach: Intrusion Theory; The European Union Approach: Exception Theory; National Jurisdictions: Often Somewhere in Between; Law; United Nations; European Union; National Legislation; Case-Law; Court of Justice of the European Union; National Courts; Literature; 11 Indirect Discrimination and Inequality; Preliminaries and a Working Definition; Discrimination; Indirect Discrimination; The Nature of Indirect Discrimination: Addressing DQ; Substantial Distinctions; Conceptual Distinctions: Three Approaches to the Nature of Indirect Discrimination; Varieties of Indirect Discrimination; The Morality of Indirect Discrimination: Addressing MQ; Explaining the Wrongness of Discrimination; Three Approaches to the Morality of Indirect Discrimination; 12 Equality of Opportunity and the Presumption of Equality; The Structure; Institutional Justification; Procedural Fairness; Substantive Opportunity; Institutional Justification Revisited; Taking Stock; The Presumption of Equality; References.; 13 Capabilities as Substantive Opportunities and the Robustness of Conversion Factors; Capabilities as Substantive Opportunities; Beings, Doings, Capabilities, Functionings, and Conversion Factors; Capabilities as a Better Measure of Equality; Three Dimensions of Substantive Opportunity; Five Conditions of Robustness; The Noncompetition/Nonexclusiveness Condition; The Nonperishability/Permanence of Conversion Factors Condition; The Decisive Choice and Decisive Preference Condition; The Content- and Context-Independence Condition; The Non-dependency/Favor-Independence Condition; Are Capabilities Binary or Incremental?; Substantiveness, Robustness, and the Identification of Capabilities; 14 Merit as a Distributive Justice Principle; Defining Merit and Meritocracy; Procedural Versus Telic Meritocracy; Substantive Meritocracy; The Problems with Procedural Meritocracy; Affirmative Action as a Means to Substantive Meritocracy; Concluding Remarks; 15 Merit, Opportunity, and the Future of Higher Education; Meritocracy: The Principle and Its Appeal; The Principle of Meritocracy; The Lure of Meritocracy; We Fail to Live up to the Meritocratic Ideal; The Moral Principle of Meritocracy Is Flawed; Meritocracy Has Bad Social Outcomes; The Future of Higher Education; Widening Access; Justice Within Universities; Universal Lifelong Learning; 16 Meritocratic (In)equalities; Meritocracy Enables Social Reproduction; The Role of Educational Institutions in the Reproduction of Meritocratic Inequalities; Bernstein´s Analyses of Social Class and Codes; Social Mobility, the Market, and the Inequalities of Meritocracy.; Segmentation and the Primary and Secondary Effects of Class Relations; Gender Issues and Meritocracy; 17 Revising Meritocracy: Merits and Equality of Opportunity; Discussion; On Virtues, Merit, and Rewards: Dragonetti and Gioja; Meritsocracy in Practice; Conclusion and Future Developments; 18 The Rise of the Meritocracy: The Genealogy of an Idea; The Rise of the Meritocracy: Some Preliminary Considerations; Michael Young and his Work; Genealogy of an Idea; The Rise of the Meritocracy: Contemporary Receptions; 19 Equal Opportunity and Higher Education; Equal Opportunity and Higher Education: Theoretical Issues; The Ideal of Equal Opportunity: General Considerations; The Stringency of Equal-Opportunity Requirements; The Objects of Equal-Opportunity Requirements; The Subjects of Equal-Opportunity Requirements; Other Theoretical Disagreements; The Ideal of Equal Opportunity: Its Bearing on Higher Education; Equal Opportunity and Higher Education: Applied Issues; Sector-Level Issues; Institution-Level Issues; Department-Level Issues; 20 On Post-Modern Conservatism, Merit, and Expansive Equality of Opportunity; Part I: Post-Modern Conservatism and Merit; The Pros and Cons of Post-Modern Culture; The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism; Winners, Losers, and Impotent Bigness: Post-Modern Conservatives and Merit; Part II: Liberal Egalitarianism and Equality of Opportunity; Is Equality of Opportunity a Solution to Post-Modern Conservative Resentment?; Equality of Opportunity, Human Capabilities, and the Good Life; 21 Equality of Opportunity and the Education of the Talented; Talent.; Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity.
Notes:: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:: Print version: Sardoč, Mitja Handbook of Equality of Opportunity
ISBN:: 9783031558979
OCLC:: 1448042168

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