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Coming to Terms with Chance : Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage.
The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham :
Ashgate Pub.,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Coming to Terms with Chance : |b Engaging Rational Discrimination and Cumulative Disadvantage. |
| 260 | |a Farnham : |b Ashgate Pub., |c 2009. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Luck, Risk, and Life Chances; 3 The Natural Lottery and our Genetic Endowments; 4 Rational Discrimination; 5 Markets that Matter; 6 Financial Risk and Insurance; 7 The Criminal Justice System; 8 Public Policy Formation and Evaluation; 9 The Media's Role; 10 "Quixotics Unite!" A Call to Arms; Bibliography; Index. | |
| 520 | |a The application of probability and statistics to an ever-widening number of life-decisions serves to reproduce, reinforce, and widen disparities in the quality of life that different groups of people can enjoy. As a critical technology assessment, the ways in which bad luck early in life increase the probability that hardship and loss will accumulate across the life course are illustrated. Analysis shows the ways in which individual decisions, informed by statistical models, shape the opportunities people face in both market and non-market environments. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Discrimination. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social stratification. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Chance |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Stratification sociale. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Social Change. |2 hilcc | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Sociology & Social History. |2 hilcc | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Journalism & Communications. |2 hilcc | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Social Sciences. |2 hilcc | |
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