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Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution
question. She uses the formal frameworks of game theory and evolutionary game theory to explore the cultural evolution of the conventions which piggyback on these seemingly irrelevant social categories. These frameworks elucidate a variety of topics from the innateness of gender differences, to
collaboration in academia, to household bargaining, to minority disadvantage, to homophily. They help to show how inequity can emerge from simple processes of cultural change in groups with gender and racial categories, and under a wide array of situations. The process of learning conventions of
coordination and resource division is such that some groups will tend to get more and others less. O'Connor offers solutions to such problems of coordination and resource division and also shows why we need to think of inequity as part of an ever evolving process. Surprisingly minimal conditions
are needed to robustly produce phenomena related to inequity and, once inequity emerges in these models, it takes very little for it to persist indefinitely. Thus, those concerned with social justice must remain vigilant against the dynamic forces that push towards inequity.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
- Publish Date: Sep 18th, 2019
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.60in - 0.90in - 0.95lb
- EAN: 9780198789970
- Categories: • Political• Sociology - Social Theory• Interpersonal Relations
About the Author
Cailin O'Connor is an Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science and a member of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine. She is a philosopher of science and evolutionary game theorist. O'Connor engages in both theoretical and experimental work on topics ranging from scientific communities, to false beliefs, to moral emotions, to signalling. She is the co-author of The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread (Yale 2019, with James Owen Weatherall)
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What people are saying
A truly interdisciplinary Bachelor that applies philosophy, politics and economics directly to public policy issues in practice. Part of @VUamsterdam
You are all very welcome to join a new round of the PPE book club — this time on "The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution" by @cailinmeister. Read Ann E. Cudd’s review of the book here: https://t.co/WsMBzRiKJY https://t.co/f7Jlo2namy
What people are saying
A truly interdisciplinary Bachelor that applies philosophy, politics and economics directly to public policy issues in practice. Part of @VUamsterdam
You are all very welcome to join a new round of the PPE book club — this time on "The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution" by @cailinmeister. Read Ann E. Cudd’s review of the book here: https://t.co/WsMBzRiKJY https://t.co/f7Jlo2namy