0160075 - SOU-Z 20000190 RIV CZ eng B - Monography
Kreidl, Martin
What makes Inequalities Legitimate? An International Comparison.
Praha: Sociologický ústav Akademie věd ČR, 2000. 49 s. Sociologické texty., 4. ISBN 80-85950-80-4
R&D Projects: GA ČR GA403/99/1128; GA ČR GA403/99/1129
Subject RIV: AO - Sociology, Demography

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.
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