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SUMMARY:Mitchell Centre Seminar Series\, Eleanor Power London School of E
 conomics   The Dynamics of Social and Economic Inequality in Cross-Cultu
 ral Perspective: the ENDOW and Rep2SI Projects
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DESCRIPTION:Understanding the drivers and dynamics of social and economic
  inequality is of core interest to social scientists\, policy makers\, a
 nd the public. I will introduce two projects that are part of an effort 
 to bring new empirical data to facilitate that understanding. The ENDOW 
 project (for Economic Networks and the Dynamics of Wealth inequality) fo
 cuses on the role that social networks play in exacerbating or mitigatin
 g inequality. It brings together a large team of anthropologists\, worki
 ng in ~50 communities in over 30 countries around the world\, to gather 
 extensive demographic\, economic\, and social network data\, across two 
 points of time. Cross-sectional analyses with our first wave of data tha
 t highlight the important role of economic connectedness. Next\, the Rep
 2SI project (for Reputation and the Reproduction of Social Inequality) d
 raws on data gathered as part of ENDOW to facilitate the running of expe
 rimental games where participants play not with unknown strangers\, but 
 with community co-residents\, presented via photos. Participants in eigh
 t communities in five countries played a series of Dictator Games where 
 we varied the reputational stakes of people's decisions\, to see how soc
 ial connection and social exposure shape people’s actions and the subseq
 uent evaluations of those actions and actors. Despite substantial cross-
 site variation in how much players give\, we find remarkably consistent 
 effects for social proximity and the anonymity (or not) of people's allo
 cation decisions. Ending with some further results on the participants' 
 reputational assessments of one another\, I'll discuss what these findin
 gs collectively imply about how social connection and social position sh
 ape how people are perceived\, how they choose to act in the world\, and
  so their prospects for social and economic mobility.\n
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CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:G7\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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