scholarly journals Attitudes Toward Economic Inequality: The Illusory Agreement

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
pp. 835-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmus T. Pedersen ◽  
Diana C. Mutz
Keyword(s):  
National Survey ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Perceptual Distortion ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Remarkable Agreement ◽  
Survey Measure ◽  
Cross National ◽  
The Ideal

Recent studies of attitudes toward economic inequality suggest that most people around the world prefer very low levels of inequality, despite well-known trends toward greater inequality within many countries. Even within countries, people across the political spectrum are said to be in remarkable agreement about the ideal level of economic inequality. Using survey data from 40 countries and a novel survey experiment in the United States, we show that this apparent agreement is illusory. When relying on a widely used cross-national survey measure of Ideal Pay Ratios, preferred levels of inequality are heavily influenced by two well-documented sources of perceptual distortion: the anchoring effect and ratio bias. These effects are substantial and many times larger than the influence of fundamental political predispositions. As a result, these cross-national survey measures tapping preferences regarding economic inequality produce misleading conclusions about desired levels of inequality.

Learning Democracy in Mexico and the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roderic Ai Camp
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Variable ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Cross National

This essay explores how Americans, Mexican Americans, and Mexicans learn about politics, and specifically, their notions of democracy, using a comprehensive cross-national survey funded by the Hewlett Foundation. It identifies significant differences and similarities across groups, and raises important questions about the socialization process, about the resistance of certain attitudes to transformation in new cultural settings, and the ease with which major political views are altered within months of changing national residence. Language facility proves to be a significant variable in this process. Este ensayo explora cóómo los estadounidenses, los mexicano-americanos y los mexicanos aprenden sobre la políítica y, especííficamente, investiga las nociones de democracia, a travéés de una encuesta comprensiva y nacional patrocinada por la Hewlett Foundation. Se identifican diferencias y similitudes significativas en los grupos y se plantean preguntas importantes sobre el proceso de socializacióón, sobre la resistencia de ciertas actitudes a la transformacióón en nuevos formatos culturales, y sobre la facilidad con que algunas visiones polííticas principales son alteradas a sóólo meses de haber cambiado de residencia de paíís. La facilidad de la lengua demuestra ser una variable significativo en este proceso.

Inequality

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Keister ◽  
Darby E. Southgate
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Race And Culture ◽  
Cross National ◽  
The Ideal

Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender offers a comprehensive introduction to the topics animating current sociological research focused on inequality. Contemporary, engaging, and research-oriented, it is the ideal text to help undergraduate students master the basic concepts in inequality research and gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which race, class, and gender interact with systems of social stratification. Following an introduction to theories and research methods used in the field, the authors apply these concepts to areas that define inequality research, including social mobility, education, gender, race, and culture. The authors include up-to-date quantitative evidence throughout. The text concludes by examining policies that have facilitated inequality and reviewing the social movements that in turn seek to reshape those structures. Though primarily focused on the United States, it includes a chapter on stratification across the globe and draws on cross-national comparisons throughout.

Cross-National Comparison of School Victimization Between Canada and the United States

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian J. Cohen ◽  
Christine Ateah ◽  
Joseph Ducette ◽  
Matthew Mahon ◽  
Alexander Tabori ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Comparison ◽  
School Victimization ◽  
Cross National

NEUROTIC SYMPTOMATICS RELATED TO PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS IN YOUTH

2019 ◽  
pp. 2014-2019
Author(s):  
Milen Dimov
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Responsiveness ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
School Year ◽  
Real Behavior ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
The Ideal

The present study traces the dynamics of personal characteristics in youth and the manifested neurotic symptoms in the training process. These facts are the reason for the low levels of school results in the context of the existing theoretical statements of the problem and the empirical research conducted among the trained teenagers. We suggest that the indicators of neurotic symptomatology in youth – aggression, anxiety, and neuroticism, are the most demonstrated, compared to the other studied indicators of neurotic symptomatology. Studies have proved that there is a difference in the act of neurotic symptoms when tested in different situations, both in terms of expression and content. At the beginning of the school year, neurotic symptoms, more demonstrated in some aspects of aggressiveness, while at the end of school year, psychotism is more demonstrated. The presented summarized results indicate that at the beginning of the school year, neurotic symptoms are strongly associated with aggression. There is a tendency towards a lower level of social responsiveness, both in the self-assessment of real behavior and in the ideal “I”-image of students in the last year of their studies. The neurotic symptomatology, more demonstrated due to specific conditions in the life of young people and in relation to the characteristics of age.

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