| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on the success of the affirmative action programs for opening the institutions, if higher education to groups that traditionally have had limited access to them and continues to move the nation towards the goal of "justice for all." The affirmative action embraces a variety of methods of expanding the opportunities for self-development available to members of historically disadvantaged groups and it finds its justification in principles of social and distributive justice. Social justice and distributive justice can be viewed as coordinates of each other. Social justice is concerned with what each of us owes to the society, or to the whole common mass of humanity. Distributive justice relates to what is owed by the society to each of us, its members. Today "affirmative action" embraces any and all positive efforts to remedy effects of past or present discrimination, or to reduce the likelihood of future discrimination, on the basis of such immutable characteristics as race, ethnicity, or sex. |
