Original paper
The Legitimacy of Inequality: Integrating the Perspectives of System Justification and Social Judgment
Abstract
To explain the legitimation of inequality among the members of a social system, we blend system justification theory and the theory of social judgment. We identify adaptation and replacement as two major mechanisms of inequality legitimation and examine their influence in the unique setting of a natural experiment, the reunification of socialist East Germany and capitalist West Germany. We show that the new members of a society in which...
Paper Details
Title
The Legitimacy of Inequality: Integrating the Perspectives of System Justification and Social Judgment
Published Date
Nov 29, 2017
Volume
55
Issue
3
Pages
486 - 516
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