Dissecting Discrimination : : Identifying Its Various Faces and Their Sources.

• Superior document: Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie Series
• Author: Villiger, Daniel.
• Place / Publishing House: Wiesbaden : : Springer Vieweg. in Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Entscheidungs- und Organisationstheorie Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 pages)

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.