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- Title
Images of Class: Public Perceptions in Hungary and Australia.
- Authors
Evans, M. D. R.; Kelley, Jonathan; Kolosi, Tamas
- Abstract
Based on reference group and cognitive bias considerations, we advance a theory, explicated via a computer simulation, to explain (1) people's perceptions of how equalitarian the class system is, (2) where people place themselves in the class system, (3) where people place others' occupations, and (4) people's estimates of the pay of different occupations. Using a new set of diagrammatic and verbal questions on class, we test our hypotheses on large, representative national samples in Australia (N = 6,177) and Hungary (N = 2,606). A full-information maximum-likelihood analysis strongly supports the hypotheses.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; HUNGARY; CLASS society; SOCIAL classes; SOCIAL systems
- Publication
American Sociological Review, 1992, Vol 57, Issue 4, p461
- ISSN
0003-1224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2096095