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.