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 discrimina
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Approximate Word count = 1174
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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