SGER: Replication of Questions on Inequality in the 2008 General Social Survey

西北大学（northwestern University）随着经济全球化的快速发展，收入不平等的程度也在不断加剧。根据美国人口普查数据，收入不平等在20世纪80年代开始迅速扩大，在90年代末达到顶峰，并在过去5年开始再次扩大。与此同时，关于人们对收入不平等加剧的看法的数据很少。因此，人们常常想当然地认为美国人并不关心收入不平等。PI寻求支持，以纳入2008年综合社会调查（GSS）的一个模块，该模块复制了有关收入不平等态度的问题。本模块的问题集中在收入不平等与其他调查倾向于解决的一般不平等。这些问题提供了数据，说明了先前关于收入不平等信念的研究中发展起来的几个理论主题，例如，现有不平等水平的适当性以及收入不平等的公平性、功能性和益处。PI正在请求对2008年GSS调查的实地问题提供支持。作为国际社会调查项目（ISSP）的社会不平等模块的一部分，这些问题首先在1987年提出，然后在1992年、1996年和2000年再次提出。由于GSS/ISSP的问题只重复了四次，而且自2000年以来就没有重复过，因此该数据系列在反映收入不平等持续加剧方面的有用性受到严重限制。将这些问题纳入2008年GSS是GSS面板设计的开始，这将使调查能够收集有关收入不平等观点的纵向数据，从而增加该数据系列的价值。GSS/ISSP关于收入不平等的问题的复制增加了不平等模块系列，并捕获了一种现象的态度信息，这种现象在过去20年里在国内和全球都在稳步增长。在2008年（以及未来的小组调查）中纳入收入不平等问题，将增加GSS作为不平等加剧（或下降）信念信息来源的有用性。这些态度可以根据有关持续的社会、经济和政治变化的信息加以分析。收集到的数据将与所有可公开获得的GSS数据一起向公众提供，从而能够广泛获取对收入不平等态度的分析。

SES- 0749243Leslie McCallNorthwestern University Rising levels of income inequality are accompanying the rapid pace of economic globalization. According to United States census data income inequality began to increase rapidly in the 1980's, reaching its plateau in late 1990, and started to rise again over the past five years. Meanwhile, there is little data on people's views about rising income inequality. As a result, the assumption is often made that Americans do not care about income inequality. The PI seeks support to include a module on the 2008 General Social Survey (GSS) that replicates questions on attitudes about income inequality. The questions in this module are focused on income inequality versus general inequality that other surveys have tended to address. These questions provide data that speak to several theoretical themes developed in previous research on beliefs about income inequality, for example the appropriateness of existing levels of inequality and the fairness, functionality, and benefits of income inequality. The PI is requesting support to field questions on the 2008 GSS survey. The questions were first asked in 1987 and then again in 1992, 1996 and 2000 as part of the Social Inequality Modules of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Since the GSS/ISSP questions have only been replicated four time, and not since 2000, the usefulness of the data series to capture the continuing rise in income inequality is severely limited. Inclusion of these questions on the 2008 GSS, which is the start of the GSS panel design, will allow the Survey to collect longitudinal data on views of income inequality, thus increasing the value of this data series. The replication of the GSS/ISSP questions on income inequality adds to the Inequality Module series and captures attitudinal information of a phenomenon, which has been steadily increasing both domestically and globally over the past 20 years. The inclusion of income inequality questions on the 2008 (and future panel surveys) will increase the usefulness of the GSS as a source of information on beliefs about rising (or declining) inequality. These attitudes can be analyzed relative to information on continuing social, economic and political changes. Data collected will be available to the general public along with all publicly available GSS data, enabling widespread access for analysis of attitudes toward income inequality.