Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Goodin, Robert E.
Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Goodin, Robert E.

Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice

Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more...
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Author: Robert E. Goodin
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Language: English
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Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Goodin, Robert E.

Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice

$172.09
Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Goodin, Robert E.

Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice

$172.09
Author: Robert E. Goodin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Robert E. Goodin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 06/30/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.50w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780192888204


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Choice 11/01/2024

About the Author
Robert E. Goodin, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University

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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