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- Title
The Perception of Inequalities: A Gender Case Study.
- Authors
Lam, Marie
- Abstract
While we know much about structural types of inequalities or the inferred principles of justice that the public use to evaluate inequality, we do not know much about the empirical and direct link between these structural locations, people's principles and sentiments. Through interviews with 28 contemporary Hong Kong single middle-class educated women in their 20s, I explore how people understand and explain their (un)equal experiences in their immediate milieux and society with explicit reference to their principles of justice. This study of how and why these women endorse accommodate of oppose gender inequalities illuminates how structural locations and principles of justice channel respondents from perceiving, and hence resenting, inequalities. It specifies who is being equal to whom, what goals respondents value, and what principles of (in)equality they apply to various contests. Respondents use the principles of equality or differentiation between the sexes to legitimize and de-legitime unequal opportunities, although the gender gap in income is rarely identified as a critical type of inequality that amuses discontent.
- Subjects
HONG Kong (China); CHINA; EQUALITY; SOCIAL conditions of women; GENDER differences (Psychology); MIDDLE class; SEX discrimination
- Publication
Sociology, 2004, Vol 38, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0038-0385
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0038038504039355