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The Undeserving Rich
American Beliefs about Inequality, Opportunity, and Redistribution
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107699823
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.03.2013
Seiten:
320
Autor:
Leslie Mccall
Gewicht:
522 g
Format:
229x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Leslie McCall is Professor of Sociology and Political Science, as well as Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, at Northwestern University. She is the author of Complex Inequality: Gender, Class, and Race in the New Economy (2001). Her work on economic inequality has been published in the American Sociological Review, Demography, Signs, the Annual Review of Sociology, Perspectives on Politics, Economic Geography and the Socio-Economic Review, as well as in several edited volumes.
McCall contests assumptions that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies.
Introduction: thinking about income inequality; 1. Beyond the opposition between opportunity and inequality: theories of American beliefs about inequality from the nineteenth century to the present; 2. The emergence of a new social issue: media coverage of economic inequality and social class in the United States, 1980¿2010; 3. American beliefs about income inequality: what, when, who, and why; 4. Why do Americans care about income inequality? The role of opportunity; 5. Americans' social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality; Conclusion: a new era of beliefs about inequality.