Relative Deprivation and Social Justice: A Study of Attitudes to Social Inequality in Twentieth-century EnglandUK. Social research, carried out by means of a questionnaire survey, into the public opinion of inequalities and injustice in the social structure - includes the historical background 1918 to 1962, self assigned social status, possession of certain consumer goods, attitudes to income distribution and social services, and concludes with a social theory of justice and a study of the possibilities of and limits to social reform. Bibliography pp. 322 to 330. |
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Relative Deprivation and the Concept of Reference | 9 |
The Three Dimensions of Social Inequality | 36 |
THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 19181962 | 53 |
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answers argument asked aspirations attitudes better Britain choice claim class-situation clerical coded comparative reference groups comparison Conservatism Conservative support correlation deprivation of status describe earnings economic egalitarian employees ence equality evidence false consciousness families feel relatively deprived feelings of relative fraternalistic hierarchy higher implied industrial inequalities of class inequalities of status inter-war Labour movement Labour Party Labour supporters less level of incomes London manual and non-manual manual respondents manual stratum manual workers manual/non-manual Means Test middle-class non-manual job non-manual respondents non-manual stratum non-manual workers normative reference group occupational stratum particular party preference person Pilgrim Trust political principles prosperity question reason relation between inequality replies resentment sample self-assigned class self-rated class self-rated self-rated self-rated sense of relative social inequality social justice society sort strata suggest survey Table tion trade unions vote white-collar workers wives working-class Conservatives