300551 Legitimation and (in)justice in an unequal world (MA: Sozialstruktur und soziale Ungleichheit) (S) (WiSe 2023/2024)

The course aims to discuss current research on the legitimation of economic inequalities in contemporary world. The key concepts that will be assessed with empirical studies concern the perception and justice evaluation of economic inequalities. The course will also tackle policy implications of the legitimation of economic inequalities in terms of redistribution. Economic inequalities will be reviewed in terms of categorical inequalities based on gender, migration and social class.

A selection of the course literature:

- Auspurg, K., Hinz, T., & Sauer, C. (2017). Why Should Women Get Less? Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap from Multifactorial Survey Experiments. American Sociological Review, 82(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/0003122416683393

- Binder, B., & Haupt, A. (2022). The fundamental role of tax systems in the relationship between workfare and inequality in the lower half of the income distribution. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 80, 100712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100712
- Bourdieu, P. (2000). Pascalian Meditations. Stanford University Press.

- Burawoy, M. (2012). The Roots of Domination: Beyond Bourdieu and Gramsci. Sociology, 46(2), 187–206. https://doi.org/10.1177/003803851142272

- Moya, C., Adriaans, J., & Sauer, C. (2023). Unjust Income Inequality Prevails Across 29 Countries. Socius, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231171581

- Puga, I., & Moya, C. (2023). Ideology, Legitimation and Collective Action: Evidence from Chile on the Mechanism of Ideological Inversion. Social Forces, 101(3), 1519–1551. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soac032
- Roscigno, V. J., Yavorsky, J. E., & Quadlin, N. (2021). Gendered Dignity at Work. American Journal of Sociology, 127(2), 562–620. https://doi.org/10.1086/717448
- Trump, K.-S. (2023). Income inequality is unrelated to perceived inequality and support for redistribution. Social Science Quarterly, 104(2), 180–188. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13269
- Trump, K.-S. (2020). When and why is economic inequality seen as fair. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 34, 46–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.12.001
- Weisstanner, D., & Armingeon, K. (2022). Redistributive preferences: Why actual income is ultimately more important than perceived income. Journal of European Social Policy, 32(2), 135–147. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287211037912