Cultural Accommodation and Domination

Bibliographic Data

ID6350839
AuthorsFrank Lovett (0000-0002-9745-5559, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri,, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume38
Issue2
Pages243-267
Publication date2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0090591709354870
OpenAlexW2107329649
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited16

When should burdened social practices be granted special accommodation? One issue of concern—raised by Okin and others—is that some social practices involve domination, and so the accommodation of those practices might (inadvertently, perhaps) support social injustice. Suppose one wants to take this concern very seriously. Starting from the assumption that freedom from domination is an especially important value, this article examines whether cultural accommodation would ever be advisable. Approaching the problem of multicultural accommodation from this point of view greatly clarifies the debate and yields some interesting results. In particular, the discussion concludes that there are circumstances under which the goal of minimizing domination itself would be furthered by policies of special accommodation

Accommodation · Environmental ethics · Injustice · Law and economics · Multiculturalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social injustice · Sociology · Value (mathematics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Religious Freedom and Discrimination

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