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Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that ruse. They say much about all the sites where such structural injustices reside - but without saying much, as yet, about how exactly structural injustice actually works. By what specific mechanisms are unfair advantages and disadvantages perpetuated? What, specifically, can we do to interrupt them? That is the focus of this book, in which Robert Goodin identifies several fundamental mechanisms of structural injustice: social position, networks, language, social expectations and norms, reputation, and organization. His discussion is deeply informed by a wide range of social sciences, mined with a philosopher's sharp eye to what matters and lucidly explained with a deft turn of phrase. Having exposed each of those specific mechanisms of structural injustice, Goodin proceeds to explore what they all have in common. The underlying drivers, he shows, are a combination of scale effects and attention scarcities. That combination limits - but also informs - what can reasonably be done to overcome the various, nefarious mechanisms that perpetuate unfair social advantage and disadvantage.
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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 shows what can reasonably be done to overcome them.
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1: Introduction 2: Modes of Perpetuating Advantage Part I. Mechanisms of Perpetuating Advantage 3: Position Confers Advantage 4: Network Confers Advantage 5: Language, Coding Categories, and Interpretive Schema Confer Advantage 6: Social Expectations and Norms Confer Advantage 7: Reputation Confers Advantage 8: Coordination and Organization Confer Advantage Part II. Underlying Drivers 9: External Factors: Scale Effects 10: Internal Factors: Attention Scarcity 11: Interrupting Advantage References Index
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Robert E. Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and sometime Professor of Government at the University of Essex, specializing in political theory and public policy. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and was General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. He has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
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Provides a comprehensive survey of social mechanisms that serve to perpetuate unjust advantage Draws on insights from a wide range of social sciences, clearly and accessibly explained Richly illustrated with real-world examples
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Product details

ISBN
9780192888204
Published
2023
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
568 gr
Height
241 mm
Width
163 mm
Thickness
20 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
272

Biographical note

Robert E. Goodin is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University and sometime Professor of Government at the University of Essex, specializing in political theory and public policy. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and was General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. He has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.