Political ideology and popular beliefs about class and opportunity: Evidence from a survey experiment

British Journal of Sociology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 450-470

  Evans, Geoffrey ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Inequality; Opportunities; Popular beliefs; Social class

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PILOT STUDY; POLITICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0031218862     PISSN: 00071315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/591140     Document Type: Article

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