The role of self-evaluations in legitimizing social inequality

Social Science Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 609-621

  Sutphin, Suzanne Taylor ^a   Simpson, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributive justice; Legitimacy; Referential structures; Self evaluations; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149123436     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.01.007     Document Type: Article

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