The comparison of the 1999 and 2009 ISSP surveys shows that the financial crisis of 2008 did not greatly upset the French perceptions of wage inequality, or their wishes to correct them or even their sense of justice for their salary. Essentially, they continue to believe that inequalities in...

La modélisation de la ségrégation spatiale proposée dans les années 1970 par Thomas C. Schelling a marqué les esprits en raison de l’effet pervers qu’elle suggérait : une forte ségrégation pourrait être le résultat collectif de décisions individuelles qui ne visent pas à une...

This study deals with the four questions on economical opinions asked in the last European Values Survey (1999). Economical liberalism appears to be a little bit more widespread than interventionism in the EU. With some exceptions, it is more frequent in Northern than Southern Europe or in...

The analysis of the 1999 International Social Survey Programme opinion polls in 8 of the participating countries shows that the interviewees tend to underestimate the largest income inequalities and consider themselves closer to the average than they really are. Their macro-justice feelings are...

Opinions derive from personal interest, but also from a moral point of view which may be grasped by examining the position of a spectator who, neither in favor of that actor nor that particular conception of what a good life is, tries to judge the situation put before him or her fairly. This is...

Social capital has a significant impact on status attainment which does not duplicate the well known effects of other forms of capital. All things being equal, the type of personal network mobilized to find a job is (in France according to the INSEE Labor force survey) likely to alter the...

An important issue for a theory of distributive justice is to know whether the principles, by which the distribution of goods is judged fair or unfair, are incompatible or complementary. The European Values Survey carried out in 1999 shows clearly the priorities of the Europeans on this matter....