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Social Inequality and the Ideology of Merit
Liberal societies have equality of opportunity as a central ideological presupposition. This is embodied in the belief that merit is rewarded. This...
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Examining the association between spousal age difference and household male dominance: does wives’ gender ideology matter?
Male–female power dynamics within the household can be examined in a variety of ways. However, one significant shortcoming in extant research on the...
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Disability, Social Inequalities, and Intersectionality in India
Disability is a familiar yet contested terrain in society today. It is a term that is often employed using common sense to explain a variety of...
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Double Jeopardy: The Roles of Job Autonomy and Spousal Gender Ideology in Employed Women’s Mental Health
Employed women persistently suffer in mental health despite more family-friendly workplaces. The job demand-control theory argues that employed...
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Health Inequalities
Inequalities in health result from social inequality. While the term equality refers to equal treatment for everyone, the term equity acknowledges...
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Social Meritocracy and Unjust Social Hierarchies: Three Proposals to Limit Meritocracy’s Erosion of Social Cooperation
A well-functioned society depends on its ability to nurture, attract, and deploy talents in critical sectors. However, the implementation of some...
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Social inequalities: theories, concepts and problematics
This article aims to present a concise perusal of the different approaches developed in the study of social inequalities and in the relationships...
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Social Honour
Though social status is reckoned as a central dimension of social stratification, its conceptualization and operationalization are demanding given...
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Horizontal inequalities, sectarian identities, and violent conflict: the case of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Sectarian-based violent extremism has long been a security concern for the Government of Pakistan. Despite the perseverance of state authorities in...
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Ideology in Capitalist Societies
One central reason why capitalism holds without the system crashing under the weight of its own contradictions is because of the active strivings of...
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The Other Gender Ideology: How ‘Anti-Gender’ Presidential Candidates Produce and Reproduce Gender—The Case of Peruvian 2021 Presidential Elections
Why are some ‘feminist’ and LGBTQ ideas considered part of so-called gender ideology while others are not? And who gets to decide? These questions...
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Realities and Ideologies in Social Sciences
In this chapter, we discuss the epistemological meaning of realities for economists and social scientists in relation to that of ideologies. We...
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Social Integration – Levels and Dimensions
The conceptual proposals on social integration are diffuse and vague. Alarmist diagnoses are contrasted by empirical research results that give an...
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Rise of Social Entrepreneurship Through Populism
This essay instigates a relationship between populism, as a strategic and socio-cultural approach, and the rise of innovative social enterprises....
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Populist Attitudes, Subjective Social Status, and Resentment in Italy
Social identity is relevant to political attitudes. Recent studies show that perceived social positions particularly shape populist attitudes. Italy...
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A Critical Review of the Green Political Ideology
In this chapter, three topics are discussed: the attitude of the Greens toward democracy, a comparison of the Greens with the populists is made, and...
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The effect of social service elite groups on long-time residents in peripheral development towns in Israel
The existence of socio-economic disparities between the geographic periphery and cities in the center is common in many countries. The study...
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Racial Inequalities as a Structuring Axis of Social Inequality in Latin America and the Afro-Descendant Population
Racial inequalities constitute one of the structural axes of the social inequality matrix in Latin America and racism is one of the central elements...
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The Intersectional Multilevel Approach: Linking Subject, Discourse, and Social Structure in Welfare State Research
The intersectional multilevel approach is a versatile instrument for subject-centered empirical social research within the framework of an...
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Colonialism and Social Inequality
This chapter reviews the role of colonialism in the production of social inequality. After a conceptual discussion, the production of coloniality as...