Perpetuating advantage : mechanisms of structural injustice /

In this book, Robert Goodin identifies several fundamental mechanisms of structural injustice: social position, networks, language, social expectations and norms, reputation, and organization. Informed by a wide range of social sciences, he explores what all these mechanisms have in common, and show...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Goodin, Robert E. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Social justice. Social structure. Social norms. Equality. Social stratification. Social classes. Justice sociale. Structure sociale. Normes sociales. Stratification sociale. Classes sociales. social structure. social stratification. social classes. Theory. Economics. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS. Political. PHILOSOPHY. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Equality Social classes Social justice Social norms Social stratification Social structure Society & culture: general. Society. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Contents
Analytic Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Structures and Agents
1.2 Focus on Advantage, More Generally
1.3 Types of Advantage
1.4 Mechanisms of Perpetuation, More Generally
1.4.1 Over Time, Across Generations
1.4.2 Flypaper and Bottlenecks
1.5 Not Allocating Blame, but Guiding Reform
2 Modes of Perpetuating Advantage
2.1 Retaining Advantage
2.2 Expanding Advantage
2.3 Replicating Advantage
2.4 Recreating Advantage
2.5 Summing Up
PART I. MECHANISMS PERPETUATING ADVANTAGE
3 Position Confers Advantage
3.1 Four Types of Positional Advantage
3.1.1 Position in a Status Hierarchy
3.1.2 Position in an Institutional Hierarchy
3.1.3 Position in a Naked-power Hierarchy
3.1.4 Position in a Formally Organized Competitive Hierarchy
3.2 The Dynamics of Positional-good Competition
3.3 Separate Spheres
3.3.1 Differing Scope Restrictions
3.3.2 Do Different Positional Advantages Cancel One Another?
3.4 Nearly Universal Means
3.5 Undoing Positional Advantage
4 Network Confers Advantage
4.1 The Nature of Networks
4.2 Network Power and Advantage
4.3 Network Homogeneity and Homophily Advantages the Advantaged
4.4 Examples of Network Advantage in Action
4.4.1 Labour Market Networks
4.4.2 Legal Services Networks
4.4.3 A Dramatic Historical Speculation
4.5 Sources of Network Effects: Information and Trust
4.6 Distributional Consequences of Network Externalities
5 Language, Coding Categories, and Interpretive Schema Confer Advantage
5.1 Language as a Source of Advantage
5.1.1 Language Conventions Can Be Asymmetrically Beneficial
5.1.2 The Choice of Language Confers Advantage and Disadvantage
5.1.3 Languages as Status Markers
5.1.4 Manipulating Language: The Implicit and Unspoken
5.2 Coding Categories
5.3 Interpretative Schema
5.4 What Is to Be Done?
6 Social Expectations and Norms Confer Advantage
6.1 Descriptive Norms and Expectations
6.1.1 Acting on What You Expect to Happen
6.1.2 Acting on the Basis of What Others Expect to Happen
6.1.2.1 As a Rational Response
6.1.2.2 As a Psychological Tendency
6.2 Prescriptive Norms and Expectations
6.2.1 Moral Norms
6.2.2 Social Norms
6.2.3 Role Norms
6.2.4 Legal Norms
6.3 The Relations Between Descriptive and Prescriptive Norms
6.4 The Value of Knowing What to Expect
6.4.1 Successfully Exercising Temporally Extended Agency
6.4.2 Stabilizing Expectations and Its Distributional Consequences
7 Reputation Confers Advantage
7.1 Reputation for Power
7.2 Reputation for Status Position
7.3 Reputation for Network Influence and Preferential Attachment
7.4 Reputation for Reliability and Trustworthiness
7.4.1 Why Trust Matters
7.4.2 Assortation by Reputation: Trust-based Network Construction