Is Affirmative Action Ethical?
Running Head: IS AFFIRMATION ACTION ETHICAL?
Is Affirmation Action Ethical?
Mehlia Adkins
Baker College of Allen Park
Cultural Diversity
Seth Persky
Is Affirmation Action Ethical?
Introduction
Nowadays, the confrontational subject of affirmative action is rising and becoming a controversial issue. This study will explore and analyze the controversy over an ethical affirmative action perspective, and examine the social policy behind this basic premise that every individual should receive the same treatment unless there is a morally relevant reason to receive an indifferent treatment. The question of whether or not affirmative action is ethical is one of the most contentious areas of debate that lies on the issue of ethnicity, gender, values, traditions, politics and many more that provides an extra advantage to one group over the another. The issue on affirmative action should be critically examined for it is here that individuals get an important start on their lives and career, any discrimination brought by denied admission is not healthy and illegal to the society for it lessens the minority representations. This study will be of great significance on the investigation of the relationship between moral and political values involving race, gender, social practices and justifications of their social choices. The ethical aspects of the affirmative action principles aim to establish a moral convention by achieving fairness and equality to the entire members of the society, a creation of non-stigmatized workplaces and other institutionalized settings due to their race/ethnicity or gender and to act as the moral basis for affirmative actions in public administration and organizational justice.
Discussion
Merit, controversy, anti-discriminatory measures and organizational justice are some of the arguments in affirmative action that need to be examined on its ethical considerations. Today, the rights of minority groups are very sensitive in terms of
Is Affirmation Action Ethical?
Mehlia Adkins
Baker College of Allen Park
Cultural Diversity
Seth Persky
Is Affirmation Action Ethical?
Introduction
Nowadays, the confrontational subject of affirmative action is rising and becoming a controversial issue. This study will explore and analyze the controversy over an ethical affirmative action perspective, and examine the social policy behind this basic premise that every individual should receive the same treatment unless there is a morally relevant reason to receive an indifferent treatment. The question of whether or not affirmative action is ethical is one of the most contentious areas of debate that lies on the issue of ethnicity, gender, values, traditions, politics and many more that provides an extra advantage to one group over the another. The issue on affirmative action should be critically examined for it is here that individuals get an important start on their lives and career, any discrimination brought by denied admission is not healthy and illegal to the society for it lessens the minority representations. This study will be of great significance on the investigation of the relationship between moral and political values involving race, gender, social practices and justifications of their social choices. The ethical aspects of the affirmative action principles aim to establish a moral convention by achieving fairness and equality to the entire members of the society, a creation of non-stigmatized workplaces and other institutionalized settings due to their race/ethnicity or gender and to act as the moral basis for affirmative actions in public administration and organizational justice.
Discussion
Merit, controversy, anti-discriminatory measures and organizational justice are some of the arguments in affirmative action that need to be examined on its ethical considerations. Today, the rights of minority groups are very sensitive in terms of
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