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POL484H1S L5101
Topics in Political Thought I
Privilege and Opportunity
Themes
Explores the concepts of social and political privilege; social and economic opportunity; and the possibility of seeing expansion of opportunity as the proper response to at least some kinds of privilege.
Texts
Elizabeth Anderson, The Imperative of Integration; James Fishkin, Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family; Carol Brooks Gardner, Passing By: Gender and Public Harassment; David Hamilton Golland, Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity; Phoebe Maltz Bovy, The Perils of “Privilege”; Andrew Mason, Levelling the Playing Field; Charles Tilly, Durable Inequality
Format and Requirements
Seminar. Short paper; research paper; class participation.
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