Motivated by the desire to explain how Americans perceive and
evaluate inequality and related programs and policies, the authors
conducted a national survey of beliefs about social and economic
inequality in America. Here they present the results of their
research on the structure, determinants, and certain political and
personal consequences of these beliefs. The presentations serve two
major goals; to describe and explain the central features of
Americans' images of inequality. Beliefs About Inequality begins
with a focus on people's perceptions of the most basic elements of
inequality: the availability of opportunity in society, the causes
of economic achievements, and the benefits and costs of equality
and inequality. The book's analysis of the public's beliefs on
these key issues is based on fundamental theories of social
psychology and lays the groundwork for understanding how Americans
evaluate inequality-related policies. The authors discuss the
ultimate determinants of beliefs and the implications of their
findings for social policies related to inequality. They propose
that attitudes toward economic inequality and related policy are
influenced by three major aspects of the current American social,
economic, and political environment: a stable "dominant ideology"
about economic inequality; individuals' social and economic status;
and specific beliefs and attitudes, often reflecting "social
liberalism" shaped by recent political debates and events. "aa
superb piece of scholarship, combining substantive ambition and
theoretical depth with analytical clarity and
sophistication."--Public Opinion Quarterly James R. Kluegel is
chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Evaluating
Contemporary Juvenile Justice. Eliot R. Smith is professor of
psychology at Indiana University. He is the author of Social
Psychology.
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