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Book SynopsisInjustices 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
Table of Contents1: 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
