SOCIOL 3AC Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Reverse Discrimination
17 Nov 2016
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Some say yes: because of prejudice or perception that a race leads to low productivity. Some say no: because was a thing of the past due to affirmative action programs. They say a reverse discrimination occurs: would choose the. The higher quality ones include an email, degree, school, etc. Rank resumes based on quality and call back the good ones. A race-blind selection rule would create equal treatment: so employers use race as a factor. But, there"s (cid:374)o effe(cid:272)t o(cid:374) the type of jo(cid:271) towards the (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er of (cid:272)all (cid:271)a(cid:272)ks. If employers matched base rate of population when it comes to managerial jobs, then blacks should receive a higher number of call backs seeing relatively few apply to those positions: but that"s (cid:374)ot the (cid:272)ase. Confound: name may signal a personal trait. Inferring social background from a name: but in the experiment, blacks are not helped if they lived in higher class areas.
