Description: Beliefs About Inequality : Americans' Views of What Is and What Ought to Be, Paperback by Kluegel, James R.; Smith, Eliot R., ISBN 0202303276, ISBN-13 9780202303277, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Motivated by the desire to explain how Americans perceive and evaluate inequality and related programs and policies, the authors conducted a national survey of beliefs about social and economic inequality in America. Here they present the results of their research on the structure, determinants, and certain political and personal consequences of these beliefs. The presentations serve two major goals; to describe and explain the central features of Americans' images of inequality. Beliefs About Inequality begins with a focus on people's perceptions of the most basic elements of inequality: the availability of opportunity in society, the causes of economic achievements, and the benefits and costs of equality and inequality. Th's analysis of the public's beliefs on these key issues is based on fundamental theories of social psychology and lays the groundwork for understanding how Americans evaluate inequality-related policies. The authors discuss the ultimate determinants of beliefs and the implications of their findings for social policies related to inequality. They propose that attitudes toward economic inequality and related policy are influenced by three major aspects of the current American social, economic, and political environment: a stable "dominant ideology" about economic inequality; individuals' social and economic status; and specific beliefs and attitudes, often reflecting "social liberalism" shaped by recent political debates and events.
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Book Title: Beliefs About Inequality : Americans' Views of What Is and What O
Number of Pages: 342 Pages
Publication Name: Beliefs about Inequality: Americans' Views of What Is and What Ought to Be
Language: English
Publisher: Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Social Sciences, Zoology
Publication Year: 1987
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 522 g
Subject Area: Economic Sociology
Author: James R. Kluegel, Eliot R. Smith
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
