Equity,relative deprivation,and the value consensus paradox |
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Authors: | Bernd Wegener |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Heidelberg, Sandgasse 9, 6900 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany |
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Abstract: | This paper addresses the question of why respondents, when asked to specify an income they would be willing to accept as just, settle for an amount that, in most case, does not deviate strongly from what they actually receive. The phenomenon is illustrated by data from West Germany. It is argued that relative deprivation theory must be extended to incorporate processes of social hierarchy perception because inasmuch as this perception is contorted it creates illusory justice evaluations. Empirical evidence of misperceiving social distributions is given by social grading studies based on large German samples. The structural causes of the distributional misperceptions are discussed, one of these causes being the value consensus paradox, i.e., the paradox that, in a stratified society, value consensus will produce different social perceptions. |
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Keywords: | social justice distributive justice social perception social inequality |
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