The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190494087.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Gossip and Reputation

Edited by:
Francesca Giardini
Francesca GiardiniTheoretical Sociology, University of GroningenClose

and
Rafael Wittek
Rafael WittekSociology, University of GroningenClose

Abstract

Reputations can make or break citizens, communities, or companies. Reputations matter for individual careers, for one’s chances of finding a partner, for a profession’s credibility, or for the value of a firm’s stock options – to name but a few. 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 present Handbook closes this gap, drawing on cutting edge insights from a multitude of disciplines, ranging from psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology and economics to philosophy, neurobiology and computer science. Being the first integrated and comprehensive collection of studies on both phenomena, each of the 25 chapters explores the current state of the art on the antecedents, processes and outcomes of the gossip-reputation link in contexts as diverse as online markets, non-industrial societies, modern firms, social networks, or schools. The volume is organized into seven parts, each of them devoted to the exploration of a different facet of gossip and reputation. Highly international in scope, the volume brings together some of the most eminent experts on gossip and reputation. Their contributions do not only help us to better understand the complex interplay between two of society’s most delicate social mechanisms. By pointing to new problems and a newly emerging cross-disciplinary solutions, the book also sketches the contours of a long term research agenda.

Keywords: Gossip, Reputation, Multidisciplinarity, Group Dynamics, Social Development, Social Networks, Individual Cognition, Emotions, Cooperation, Social Dilemmas, Social Mechanisms.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:: Aug 2019

ISBN:: 9780190494087

Published online:: Jun 2019

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190494087.001.0001

Editors

Francesca Giardini, editor
Francesca Giardini Grote Rozenstraat, 31 9712 TG, Groningen (NL)

Rafael Wittek, editor
University of Groningen Department of Theoretical Sociology, Grote Rozenstraat, Grote Rozenstraat 31 - 9712 TG Groningen (NL)

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Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- List of Contributors
Introduction: Gossip and Reputation—A Multidisciplinary Research ProgramFrancesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek
I Disciplinary Foundations
- Gossip, Reputation, and Sustainable Cooperation: Sociological FoundationsFrancesca Giardini and Rafael Wittek
- Human Sociality and Psychological FoundationsNicholas Emler
- Reputation in Moral Philosophy and EpistemologyGloria Origgi
- Gossip, Reputation, and LanguageHaykaz Mangardich and Stanka A. Fitneva
- Gossip in Ethnographic PerspectiveNiko Besnier
II Individual Cognition and Emotion
- Neuroscientific MethodsRiccardo Boero
- Gossip and Reputation in ChildhoodGordon P. D. Ingram
- Gossip and EmotionElena Martinescu, Onne Janssen, and Bernard A. Nijstad
III Strategic Interdependencies
- Gossip as a Social SkillFrancis T. McAndrew
- Gossip and Reputation in Social DilemmasManfred Milinski
- Reputation and Gossip in Game TheoryCharles Roddie
- Agent-Based Computational Models of Reputation and Status DynamicsAndré Grow and Andreas Flache
IV Evolution, Competition, and Gender
- Gossip and Reputation in Small-scale Societies: A View from Evolutionary AnthropologyChristopher Boehm
- Gossip, Reputation, and Friendship in Within-group Competition: An Evolutionary PerspectiveNicole H. Hess and Edward H. Hagen
- Women’s Gossip as an Intrasexual Competition Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Sex and DiscriminationAdam Davis, Tracy Vaillancourt, Steven Arnocky, and Robert Doyel
V Power and Status
- Gossip and Reputation in the Media: How Celebrities Emerge and Evolve by Means of Mass-Mediated GossipCharlotte J. S. De Backer, Hilde Van den Bulck, Maryanne L. Fisher, and Gaëlle Ouvrein
- On the Nature of Gossip, Reputation, and Power InequalitySally Farley
- Gossip and Reputation in Adolescent NetworksDorottya Kisfalusi, Károly Takács, and Judit Pál
VI Markets, Organizations, and Networks
- Trust and Reputation in MarketsAndreas Diekmann and Wojtek Przepiorka
- The Economics of Gossip and Collective ReputationFederico Boffa and Stefano Castriota
- Antecedents and Consequences of Gossip in Work GroupsBianca Beersma, Gerben A. van Kleef, and Maria T. M. Dijkstra
- Gossip and Reputation in Social NetworksLea Ellwardt
VII The Web, Computers, and Technology
- Gossip and Reputation in Computational SystemsJordi Sabater-Mir
- Online Reputation SystemsChris Snijders and Uwe Matzat
- Gossip, Internet-Based Reputation Systems, and GovernanceLucio Picci
End Matter
- Index

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Rafael Wittek
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