Residential preferences are culturally shaped, not rational givens

Evidence

So, rational choice theorists to the contrary, preferences are not naïve, discursively unstructured, simply given, or unchanging. Preferences are ordered by the dominant discursive culture and terms. In the case of the preference for segregated space, segregation is discursively (re)produced and ideologically massaged. White Americans of all class stripes reportedly prefer to live in neighborhoods which are at least 80 percent white; black Americans prefer to live in neighborhoods which are 50 percent white (which is to say 50 percent not white). — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 384

Categorization

• XREF: Directly rebuts rational-choice treatments the reader knows from Milgrom’s Law Merchant material — both are about when preferences are endogenous to institutions versus exogenous. — connects to: The preference for segregated space is culturally produced, not innate.; Racially patterned residential preferences reproduce segregation without overt racism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1783; Purported neighborhood preferences are themselves produced by racial discourse — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 384 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The preference for segregated space is culturally produced, not innate. #corroborates (0.90)
• Purported neighborhood preferences are themselves produced by racial discourse #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 384
• Seemingly neutral consumer preferences remain racially patterned and predictable. #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1783
• Being endemic to a culture does not make such views constant or inevitable #corroborates (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 200
• The desire for freedom from social conventions is not innate but culturally constructed. #exemplifies (0.75)
• Racially patterned residential preferences reproduce segregation without overt racism #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1783
• Not all prejudices are alike; each is culturally situated #exemplifies (0.72) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 49
• Race and ethnicity are socially constructed rather than natural categories. #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 104