The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
Published on 4. July 2019
Book
Hardback
552 pages
978-0-19-049408-7 (ISBN)
Description
Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.. Academic studies have found that gossip and reputation have the power to enforce social norms, facilitate cooperation, and act as a means of social control. The key mechanism for the creation, maintenance, and destruction of reputations in everyday life is gossip - evaluative talk about absent third parties. Reputation and gossip are inseparably intertwined, but up until now have been mostly studied in isolation.
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation fills this intellectual gap, providing an integrated understanding of the foundations of gossip and reputation, as well as outlining a potential framework for future research. Volume editors Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek bring together a diverse group of researchers to analyze gossip and reputation from different disciplines, social domains, and levels of analysis. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, organizations, social networks, or schools.
International in scope, the volume is organized into seven sections devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Contributions from eminent experts on gossip and reputation not only help us better understand the complex interplay between two delicate social mechanisms, but also sketch the contours of a long term research agenda by pointing to new problems and newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions.
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation fills this intellectual gap, providing an integrated understanding of the foundations of gossip and reputation, as well as outlining a potential framework for future research. Volume editors Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek bring together a diverse group of researchers to analyze gossip and reputation from different disciplines, social domains, and levels of analysis. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current research on the antecedents, processes, and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, organizations, social networks, or schools.
International in scope, the volume is organized into seven sections devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Contributions from eminent experts on gossip and reputation not only help us better understand the complex interplay between two delicate social mechanisms, but also sketch the contours of a long term research agenda by pointing to new problems and newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
8 line drawings; 8 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 179 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
1136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-049408-7 (9780190494087)
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Francesca Giardini | Rafael Wittek
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
E-Book
05/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€86.99
Available for download
Francesca Giardini | Rafael Wittek
The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation
E-Book
05/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€86.99
Available for download
Persons
Francesca Giardini is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Groningen.
Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen.
Rafael Wittek is Professor of Theoretical Sociology at the University of Groningen.
Content
List of Contributors
1: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Introduction: Gossip and Reputation: A Multidisciplinary Research Program
PART I DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS
2: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological Foundations
3: Nicholas Emler: Human Sociality and Psychological Foundations
4: Gloria Origgi: Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology
5: Haykaz Mangardich and Stanka A. Fitneva: Gossip, Reputation, and Language
6: Niko Besnier: Gossip in Ethnographic Perspective
PART II INDIVIDUAL COGNITION AND EMOTION
7: Riccardo Boero: Neuroscientific Methods
8: Gordon P. D. Ingram: Gossip and Reputation in Childhood
9: Elena Martinescu, Onne Janssen, and Bernard A. Nijstad: Gossip and Emotion
PART III STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCIES
10: Francis T. McAndrew: Gossip as a Social Skill
11: Manfred Milinski: Gossip and Reputation in Social Dilemmas
12: Charles Roddie: Reputation and Gossip in Game Theory
13: Andre Grow and Andreas Flache: Agent-Based Computational Models of Reputation and Status Dynamics
PART IV EVOLUTION, COMPETITION, AND GENDER
14: Christopher Boehm: Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary Anthropology
15: Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-group Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective
Nicole H. Hess and Edward H. Hagen:
16: Adam Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt, Steven Arnocky, and Robert Doyel: Women's Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Sex and Discrimination
PART V POWER AND STATUS
17: Gossip and Reputation in the Media: How Celebrities Emerge and Evolve by Means of Mass-Mediated Gossip
Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Hilde Van den Bulck, Maryanne L. Fisher, and Gaelle Ouvrein:
18: Sally Farley: On the Nature of Gossip, Reputation, and Power Inequality
19: Dorottya Kisfalusi, Karoly Takacs, and Judit Pal: Gossip and Reputation in Adolescent Networks
PART VI MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND NETWORKS
20: Andreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka: Trust and Reputation in Markets
21: Federico Boffa and Stefano Castriota: The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation
22: Bianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Maria T. M. Dijkstra: Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work Groups
23: Lea Ellwardt: Gossip and Reputation in Social Networks
PART VII THE WEB, COMPUTERS, AND TECHNOLOGY
24: Jordi Sabater-Mir: Gossip and Reputation in Computational Systems
25: Chris Snijders and Uwe Matzat: Online Reputation Systems
26: Lucio Picci: Gossip, Internet-Based Reputation Systems, and Governance
Index
1: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Introduction: Gossip and Reputation: A Multidisciplinary Research Program
PART I DISCIPLINARY FOUNDATIONS
2: Francesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek: Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological Foundations
3: Nicholas Emler: Human Sociality and Psychological Foundations
4: Gloria Origgi: Reputation in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology
5: Haykaz Mangardich and Stanka A. Fitneva: Gossip, Reputation, and Language
6: Niko Besnier: Gossip in Ethnographic Perspective
PART II INDIVIDUAL COGNITION AND EMOTION
7: Riccardo Boero: Neuroscientific Methods
8: Gordon P. D. Ingram: Gossip and Reputation in Childhood
9: Elena Martinescu, Onne Janssen, and Bernard A. Nijstad: Gossip and Emotion
PART III STRATEGIC INTERDEPENDENCIES
10: Francis T. McAndrew: Gossip as a Social Skill
11: Manfred Milinski: Gossip and Reputation in Social Dilemmas
12: Charles Roddie: Reputation and Gossip in Game Theory
13: Andre Grow and Andreas Flache: Agent-Based Computational Models of Reputation and Status Dynamics
PART IV EVOLUTION, COMPETITION, AND GENDER
14: Christopher Boehm: Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary Anthropology
15: Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-group Competition: An Evolutionary Perspective
Nicole H. Hess and Edward H. Hagen:
16: Adam Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt, Steven Arnocky, and Robert Doyel: Women's Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Sex and Discrimination
PART V POWER AND STATUS
17: Gossip and Reputation in the Media: How Celebrities Emerge and Evolve by Means of Mass-Mediated Gossip
Charlotte J. S. De Backer, Hilde Van den Bulck, Maryanne L. Fisher, and Gaelle Ouvrein:
18: Sally Farley: On the Nature of Gossip, Reputation, and Power Inequality
19: Dorottya Kisfalusi, Karoly Takacs, and Judit Pal: Gossip and Reputation in Adolescent Networks
PART VI MARKETS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND NETWORKS
20: Andreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka: Trust and Reputation in Markets
21: Federico Boffa and Stefano Castriota: The Economics of Gossip and Collective Reputation
22: Bianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Maria T. M. Dijkstra: Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work Groups
23: Lea Ellwardt: Gossip and Reputation in Social Networks
PART VII THE WEB, COMPUTERS, AND TECHNOLOGY
24: Jordi Sabater-Mir: Gossip and Reputation in Computational Systems
25: Chris Snijders and Uwe Matzat: Online Reputation Systems
26: Lucio Picci: Gossip, Internet-Based Reputation Systems, and Governance
Index