What makes Inequalities Legitimate? An International Comparison.

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

What makes Inequalities Legitimate? An International Comparison.

Original language description

This paper analyses legitimacy of poverty and wealth in six countries. In the firstpart various theories about perceptions of poverty and wealth are presented. Using datafrom International Social Justice Project author found that people distinguishbetween merited, unmerited and fatalistic types of poverty. Moreover, peoplestructure their explanations of wealth along three factors too. Wealth can be merited, unmerited, or based on social capital. In the next part of the paper author show ligitimacy of inequalities depends on individual stratification-related experience, group identification and membership, education and changing social atmosphere.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

AO - Sociology, demography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2000

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

80-85950-80-4

Number of pages

49

Publisher name

Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR

Place of publication

Praha

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