TY - JOUR
T1 - New results linking inequality and justice
AU - Jasso, Guillermina
N1 - Funding Information:
Earlier versions of portions of this article were presented at the 17th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR), Emory University, Atlanta, GA, July 2018; and at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA), Philadelphia, PA, August 2018. I thank conference participants, anonymous referees, and the Editor for valuable comments. I also gratefully acknowledge the intellectual and financial support of New York University.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Recent work revives the classic idea that the sense of justice is the first line of defense against inequality and shows that the link depends, in part, on ideas of the just reward. This paper extends earlier work, making three new contributions: (1) it expands the just reward scenarios from the micro scenarios (which start with the individual's idea of the just reward) to six new macro scenarios (which start with the distribution of everyone's ideas of the just reward); (2) it expands the set of justice measures from three to four, including now the proportion underrewarded; and (3) it obtains results for all the new cases, identifying the conditions that lead to radically different connections between inequality and justice.
AB - Recent work revives the classic idea that the sense of justice is the first line of defense against inequality and shows that the link depends, in part, on ideas of the just reward. This paper extends earlier work, making three new contributions: (1) it expands the just reward scenarios from the micro scenarios (which start with the individual's idea of the just reward) to six new macro scenarios (which start with the distribution of everyone's ideas of the just reward); (2) it expands the set of justice measures from three to four, including now the proportion underrewarded; and (3) it obtains results for all the new cases, identifying the conditions that lead to radically different connections between inequality and justice.
KW - Inequality and justice
KW - inequality measures and justice measures
KW - just rewards; justice evaluations
KW - probability distributions
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U2 - 10.1080/0022250X.2020.1715970
DO - 10.1080/0022250X.2020.1715970
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85082466094
VL - 45
SP - 1
EP - 21
JO - Journal of Mathematical Sociology
JF - Journal of Mathematical Sociology
SN - 0022-250X
IS - 1
ER -