Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
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...…and others wish to reverse this trend because they point to a lack of social solidarity and social cohesion which is created when citizenship is understood as merely or even primarily as status (Etzioni et al. 2004; MacIntyre 1981; Oldfield 1990; Sandel 1982; Taylor 1995; Walzer 1983)....
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...…to economic transactions precisely because they are seen as putting prices on things belonging in non-market contexts (Krawiec 2009; Sandel 2000; Walzer 1983).2 We define disreputable exchange as provision of goods or services that is culturally prohibited, where the moral objection is…...
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...Sublimated transactionalism, in turn, is often more palatable because it helps one stay clear of moral limits to fungibility (Espeland and Stevens 1998; Sandel 2000; Walzer 1983)....
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...Paying for political favors or sex is disreputable specifically because it breaches the moral limits to fungibility of market and non-market goods (Espeland and Stevens 1998; Sandel 2000; Walzer 1983)....
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...This article draws on and contributes to several research streams, most notably work in sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and philosophy on exchange and contested commodities (Bourdieu 2000; Fiske 1992; Krawiec 2009; Molm 2003; Roth 2007; Sandel 2000; Walzer 1983; Zelizer 2005)....
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...of Non-Citizens...
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...One influential one derives the legitimacy of entrance control from the right of peoples to preserve or maintain their ethnic, cultural or national identity (Walzer 1983, Miller 2008)....
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...…than objective, impartial, and just, critics assert that it is not possible to be totally impartial in assessing merit criteria through the use of neutral measures of performance because these criteria frequently include normative values and cultural assumptions (Walzer, 1983; I. M. Young, 2002)....
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...Additionally, even though the Singapore state has attempted to depoliticize the ideology of merit and has frequently sought to play down the possibility of school-based assessments and qualification criteria being less than objective, impartial, and just, critics assert that it is not possible to be totally impartial in assessing merit criteria through the use of neutral measures of performance because these criteria frequently include normative values and cultural assumptions (Walzer, 1983; I. M. Young, 2002)....
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...Adopting a more utilitarian argument, Walzer (1983) equates educational equality to welfare provision, because “all children, conceived as future citizens, have the same need to know, and … the ideal of membership is best served if they are all taught the same things” (p. 203)....
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...Critics contend that these policies create a hierarchical class system within the education system that mirrors and reinforces existing class and racial divisions within society (Walzer, 1983)....
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...Walzer tries to combine the liberal principle that obligation can arise only from individual consent with a more sociologically "realistic" view of the individual than the "abstract" view he attributes to classical liberalism (Walzer, 1970, 1984, p. 324)....
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