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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gandy, Oscar H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2009.
Temas:
Discrimination.
Social stratification.
Statistics > Social aspects.
Chance > Social aspects.
Stratification sociale.
Hasard > Aspect social.
Statistique > Aspect social.
social stratification.
Discrimination
Social stratification
Communication & Mass Media.
Social Change.
Sociology & Social History.
Journalism & Communications.
Social Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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