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| Author: | Kunovich, S. Slomczynski, K. M. |
| Title: | Systems of distribution and a sense of equity: A multilevel analysis of meritocratic attitudes in post-industrial societies |
| Journal: | European sociological review
2007 : DEC, VOL. 23:5, p. 649-663 |
| Index terms: | educational attainment equality income distribution |
| Freeterms: | meritocracy |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article investigates individual-level and country-level determinants of pro-meritocratic attitudes, which are defined as general beliefs that education and its correlates should determine personal economic situation. The authors use Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) to analyse the data of International Social Survey Project (ISPP): Social Inequality Module (1992) including 7,972 persons from 14 countries. The results accord with the self-interest and rational-action theories suggesting that individuals with high educational attainment and high personal income have strong meritocratic beliefs, and also with modernization and post-industrial theories which imply that persons living in countries with a high degree of societal meritocracy hold stronger meritocratic beliefs than those living in countries with low degree of societal meritocracy. |
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