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| Tekijä: | Swift, A. |
| Otsikko: | Would perfect mobility be perfect? |
| Lehti: | European sociological review
2004 : FEB, VOL. 20:1, p. 1-11 |
| Asiasana: | Equal opportunities Mobility Sociology |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | The key normative issues raised by empirical research into social mobility and meritocracy are explored in this article. Typically, sociologists working in this area are motivated by a concern with matters of social justice and equality of opportunity, but that concern tends to be rather vague and diffuse, which makes it difficult to assess the normative relevance of their findings. Surveying, in an accessible manner, five issues familiar to political philosophers that clarify the significance of sociologists' results, this article explains why a regime of "perfect mobility" is not an appropriate benchmark for evaluating the extent to which a society offers its members social justice or equality of opportunity. |
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