This article examines the determinants of variations in welfare state attitudes between
Germany, Norway, and the United States. Besides the influence of different 'welfare regime …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of the empirical justice research done so far within
sociology and aim to contribute to a clearer understanding of what constitutes a sociological …

What attitudes relating to differences in occupational earnings did people in state-socialist
societies hold before and after the transformation in 1989, compared with people in market …

Previous research on social inequalities relied primarily on objective indicators. According to
recent studies, however, subjective indicators that reflect a person's perceptions and …

The objective of empirical justice analysis is fourfold:(i) to obtain numerical approximations
of the quantities and relations identified by justice theory;(ii) to gauge the extent of …

This paper attempts to answer the question whether justice evaluations of income inequality
in a society are determined more by country differences or by the social position an observer …

This article explores the consequences of intergenerational social mobility on perceptions of
popular explanations of poverty. It is hypothesised that those who experience improvements …

The sociology of religion is engrossed in a debate concerning the process of secularization.
Some theories of secularization hold that religiosity decreases under the effects of …

Economic inequality is usually assumed to be a threat to social cohesion and democracy.
Nevertheless, this opposition of inequality and democracy is based on further assumptions …

The existence of culture is far less contested than the ways in which one can conceptualize,
theorize and measure it. Grid-group theory is a typological contribution to the field of political …