The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth
The moral economy of inequality: popular views on income differentiation, poverty and wealth
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不平等的道德经济：关于收入差异、贫困和财富的流行观点
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2012
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Patrick Sachweh
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Patrick Sachweh
本文探讨了在一个收入不平等加剧的时代，德国的普通民众如何看待经济差距并使其合法化。基于对来自较高和较低社会阶层的受访者的深入定性访谈，本文重建了“道德经济”，这是不平等的流行观点的基础。虽然受访者同意抽象的不平等原则，即基于功绩的收入差异，但他们关注的是不平等的具体实例，特别是贫穷和财富。这些都受到批评，因为它们被视为意味着不可容忍的偏离，向上和向下，从一种被认为是普遍的生活方式，从而促进生活世界的隔离和社会解体。因此，对不公正的看法似乎不是基于收入不平等本身的存在，而是基于经济差距威胁到社会纽带的观点。
This article asks how ordinary people in Germany perceive and legitimize economic disparities in an era of rising income inequality. Based on in-depth qualitative interviews with respondents from higher and lower social classes, the paper reconstructs the ‘moral economy’ that underlies popular views of inequality. While respondents agree with abstract inegalitarian principles—i.e. income differentiation based on merit—they are concerned with specific instances of inequality, especially poverty and wealth. These are criticized because they are seen to imply intolerable deviations, both upwards and downwards, from a way of living presumed as universal, thereby fostering a segregation of life-worlds and social disintegration. Thus, perceptions of injustice do not seem to be based on the existence of income inequality as such, but rather on the view that economic disparities threaten the social bond.