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Why do people accept increasing economic inequality? With this path-breaking collection of investigations spanning the globe, Duina and Storti offer new answers to this urgent question. Their analysis of rationalizations for inequality makes a strong platform for future scholarship, and a valuable perspective for all concerned with promoting equal opportunity. * Lynette Spillman, Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame * One of the most important yet understudied questions of our time is why people accept inequality. The outstanding collection of essays in The Social Acceptance of Inequality gives us answers that are empirically grounded, theoretically rich, and often surprising.  As the contributors explain, whether people think that inequality is beneficial, fair, appropriate or a matter of ethnic superiority, these beliefs help justify and reproduce inequality around the world. * John L. Campbell, Class of 1925 Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College *

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Francesco Duina is Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Bates College (USA), where he is also Social Sciences Division Chair (2022-2026). Luca Storti is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Turin (Italy). Luca is also Research Fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute at CUNY, The Graduate Center (USA).

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