Latino-Anglo Bargaining: Culture, Structure and Choice in Court Mediation

by Rack; Christine

• ISBN13: 9780415974585
• ISBN10: 0415974585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book shows the mechanisms by which cultural differences reinforce structural privilege & disadvantage in the informal process of mediated negotiation. Are all people equally likely to pursue their own material self-interest in the negotiation process used in small claims mediation? Did Latinos and Anglos bargain more generously with members of their own group? The central questions, derived from theories of ethnic and gender differences, concerned how, and to what degree, culture, structure, and individual choice operated to alter the goals, bargaining process and outcomes, expressed motivations and outcome evaluations for outsider groups. This book demonstrates how there are real cultural differences in the way that Latinos and Anglos pursue monetary justice that defy dominant assumptions that all culture groups are equally likely to maximize their own outcomes at the expense of others.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Phillip B. Gonzales
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Small Claims Court & Mediation	13	(18)
Culture, Hierarchy, & Ethnicity	31	(16)
The Cultural Environment	47	(20)
The MetroCourt Project	67	(14)
Forum Influence on Dispute Goals	81	(20)
Adjudicated & Negotiated Outcomes	101	(18)
Status Patterns in Bargaining	119	(20)
Disputant Accounts of Bargaining Motivation	139	(28)
Ethgender Bargaining and Expectations	167	(24)
Case Studies	191	(32)
Summary of MetroCourt Findings	223	(14)
Implications & Future Directions	237	(16)
Afterwords and Thoughts	253	(4)
Glossary	257	(6)
Appendix	263	(12)
Notes	275	(22)
Bibliography	297	(26)
Index	323