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Dissecting Discrimination : Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Villiger, Daniel.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, 2021.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Defining Different Forms of Discrimination
  • 2.1 When Is There Discrimination?
  • 2.2 Social Discrimination Under Certainty
  • 2.2.1 Are There Different Shades of Taste-Based Discrimination?
  • 2.2.2 Tastes for Groups
  • 2.3 Social Discrimination Under Uncertainty
  • 2.4 How to Detect the Accurate Type(s) of Discrimination
  • 3 Where Does Taste-Based Discrimination Come From?
  • 3.1 A Taste for the Ingroup
  • 3.1.1 Defining Taste-Based Discrimination in a Receiver Situation
  • 3.1.2 Ingroup Favouritism and Social Identity Theory
  • 3.1.3 Ingroup Love or Outgroup Derogation?
  • 3.1.4 Tastes Outside the Ingroup-Outgroup Context
  • 3.2 Is All Discrimination Ultimately Statistical Discrimination?
  • 3.2.1 Interdependence of Outcomes and Direct Reciprocity
  • 3.2.2 Indirect Reciprocity and Reputational Concerns
  • 3.2.3 Cooperative Norm Violation
  • 3.3 The Evolution of Agent-Relative Social Preferences
  • 3.3.1 Why Altruistic Behaviour Can Be Adaptive
  • 3.3.2 The Role of Culture in Evolution
  • 3.3.3 Why Altruism Is Conditional
  • 4 How Do We Get Our Beliefs for Statistical Discrimination?
  • 4.1 Inherent Prior Beliefs
  • 4.1.1 Prior Beliefs about Familiar and Unfamiliar Alternatives
  • 4.1.2 Prior Beliefs about the Ingroup and Outgroup
  • 4.2 How We Update Beliefs
  • 4.2.1 On Availability, Frequency, and Probability
  • 4.2.2 Distorted Memories
  • 4.2.3 Why We Defend Our Beliefs
  • 4.2.4 The Role of Social Identity in the Belief Formation Process
  • 4.3 About the Beliefs We Learn
  • 4.3.1 The Importance of Historical Circumstances
  • 4.3.2 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Reproduction of Social Conditions
  • 4.3.3 On the Structure of Society
  • 5 Reassembling Discrimination
  • 5.1 A Descriptive Model of Discrimination.
  • 5.2 Implications for a Normative Theory of Discrimination
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References.

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