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affirmative action

policy of granting preferential treatment to certain groups on the basis that they have suffered "past or present discrimination or disadvantage"
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Summary

affirmative action is a social policy[1]. It draws 6,858 Wikipedia views per month (social policy category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: discrimination[3], anti-discrimination[4]
  • Commons category: Affirmative action[5]
  • Said to be the same as: reverse discrimination[6]
  • Opposite of: anti–affirmative action[7]
  • Has part(s): men quota[8], gender quota[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Affirmative action[10]
  • Described by source: Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[11], Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[12], Red Blue Translator[13]
  • Different from: equality of treatment[14]
  • Studied by: sociolinguistics[15]

Why It Matters

affirmative action has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

social policy sociolinguistics

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  11. [13] ↑ . allsides.com. allsides.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → affirmative-action
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: affirmative-action, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289915735|affirmative action (#289915735)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|H"
  2. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → ['4avwZ4', '3Y1NRW']
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 15w ago · Mosbane · 2026-06-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → policy of granting preferential treatment to certain groups on the basis that th
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||en, ja */"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Affirmative action
    Described by source → Soziolinguistika Hiztegia, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Red Blue Translator
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|13 */ Yso id: 25139, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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