Recommended. With reservations. General readers through faculty.
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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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ISBN
9780192888204
Publisert
2023
Utgiver
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Vekt
568 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
272
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