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 Discrimination, published in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing, Pincus breaks discrimination into three specific types. He succeeds in explaining the more common types of discrimination, but his explanation of structural discrimination± is not as effective and causes him to lose credibility in his argument that all three types of discrimination must be confronted if racial equality is to be achieved± (592). From the start of Pincus's article, he is conveying his biased opinion. He states, Prejudice' does not necessarily lead to discrimination' and discrimination is not always caused by prejudice± (586). Pincus's explanation of what discrimination is sounds like a contradiction. Everyone knows that the roots of discrimination can be fo
This is a truly shocking piece of evidence to the reader. Discrimination is always caused by prejudice. Pincus offers a solution to help end this kind of discrimination by having activists appeal to the moral and legal principles of ' racial fairness± (591). Pincus fails to recognize that a college education is more than just skills acquired. Pincus follows with examples of this type of discrimination. Another type of discrimination that Pincus evaluates is that of the policies of majority institutions and their intentions of keeping minorities out. An understanding of the differences± of these two types of discrimination is necessary since they have different origins, different policies are required for their elimination± (591) Once again, Pincus successfully proves that institutional discrimination is a visible type of discrimination. Pincus classifies this as Individual Discrimination. Pincus shows to his readers that this type is easy to identify. Pincus weaves facts into his argument that demonstrate that this type of discrimination still exists today. Pincus tries to further break down discrimination into a third type, structural discrimination. Pincus feels that these employers are trying to weed out the Hispanics and the Blacks. ± This classification is also easily proven accurate. His solution offers a sensible and clear plan to the reader.
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