5.2.1 Equal opportunity, meritocracy and education
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The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that social and economic inequality is a result of

  • group privilege
  • natural results of deficient personal choices (correct)
  • individual failures
  • systemic discrimination
  • What is the main argument of the text?

  • Equal opportunity promotes fairness and meritocracy
  • Equal opportunity perpetuates privilege and inequality (correct)
  • Equal opportunity is a fallacy
  • Equal opportunity is a neutral method of resource allocation
  • Educational reforms based on the concept of equal opportunity fail

  • privileged groups
  • individuals outside the structures of privilege (correct)
  • marginalized groups
  • all groups
  • The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that equal opportunity is

    <p>objective</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The concept of equal opportunity serves to reinforce and reproduce structures of

    <p>privilege</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The deficit story of equal opportunity disregards

    <p>systemic discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Any social and economic inequality that exists is legitimized as reflecting

    <p>natural results of deficient personal choices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The deficit story of equal opportunity presupposes the inherent

    <p>sameness of all people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Educational reforms predicated on equal opportunity fail

    <p>marginalized groups</p> Signup and view all the answers

    The deficit story of equal opportunity assumes that any inequities along race, class, or gender lines are due to

    <p>individual failures</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author argues against competitive conceptions of equality of opportunity?

    <p>Paul Gomberg</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author examines the way that conventional measures of merit do not predict performance, but do track race and social class?

    <p>Lani Guinier</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author defends a version of the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity, where merit is understood as the combination of both talent and effort?

    <p>David Miller</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author argues that the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity is mistaken and that we should instead be concerned with allocating jobs in accordance with luck egalitarianism and not merit or qualification?

    <p>Shlomi Segall</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author examines the way that merit must be grounded in an idea of what a good human life and good society is?

    <p>Amartya Sen</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author addresses the inequalities that follow from familial partiality and proposes a framework for thinking about which ways of transmitting advantage are legitimate and which are not?

    <p>Adam Swift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author defends the equal opportunity to contribute their talents to the production of certain social goods as a means to flourishing?

    <p>Paul Gomberg</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author argues that underlying any notion of merit in the meritocratic conception of equality of opportunity is a notion of efficiency that cannot ground strong claims of desert?

    <p>Norman Daniels</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author examines the concepts of human nature and human potential as they apply to the educational context?

    <p>Michael Dunlop Young</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which author examines the many values related to educational choice, including equality of opportunity, the value of education, parental partiality, and parents’ rights?

    <p>Adam Swift</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity requires that positions and goods be distributed solely in accordance with

    <p>Individual merit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is opposed to

    <p>Arbitrary discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity has limitations, especially with respect to

    <p>Children</p> Signup and view all the answers

    If all the top university places are awarded to members of the upper class, enforcing Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may

    <p>Preserve social inequalities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity does not distribute opportunities to develop 'merit'

    <p>Equally</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity opposes discrimination based on

    <p>Arbitrary factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is most commonly associated with the allocation of

    <p>Jobs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity is welcomed for moving away from

    <p>Arbitrary discrimination</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may be misplaced in the case of

    <p>Education</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity may preserve social inequalities between members of different

    <p>Classes</p> Signup and view all the answers

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