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Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources

Kevin T. Leicht
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (6) 103-121; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.6.06
Kevin T. Leicht
aProfessor and past chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
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    Perceptions of Inequality in High- and Low-Inequality Environments

    Source: EU-SILC n.d.; ISSP 2009; PSID 2022; author’s tabulation based on Niehues 2014.

    Note: Population shares in seven income classes from Niehues 2014.

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    Perceptions of Inequality and Preferences for Redistribution

    Source: Author’s tabulation based on Niehues 2014; ISSP 2009.

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    Income Inequality

    Source: Author’s tabulation based on U.S. Census Bureau n.d., table H-1.

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    Gini Indicies for Households

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    Persons in Poverty

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    Ratio of Whites in Poverty to African Americans and Latinos

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    Note: At one hundred, there is one poor white person for every African American or Latino, regardless of economic status.

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    The “Status Window”

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    Status Windows in a Low Inequality Environment

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    Status Windows in a High-Inequality Environment

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    • INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL STATUS: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
    • WHY THE DISCONNECT? THE CONCEPTS OF STATUS WINDOWS AND STATUS OVERLAP
    • SOCIAL STATUS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS IN RELATION TO STATUS WINDOWS AND OVERLAP
    • FURTHER OBSERVATIONS: HIGH INEQUALITY LEADS TO ENHANCED STATUS FOCUS, NOT LESS
    • SOCIAL STATUS, STATUS WINDOWS, AND INEQUALITY PARADOXES: THREE ILLUSTRATIONS
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