Arbeitspapier | Working paper
From nationally bounded to pan-European inequalities? On the importance of foreign countries as reference groups
"In sociology, the appropriateness of national approaches for understanding social inequality in today's societies is being increasingly questioned, and EU-wide approaches are advocated instead. In this paper, we link the growing debate about national or EU-wide approaches to reference group theory, investigating whether comparisons with foreign countries influence levels of individual life satisfaction. Our results indicate that, on the one hand, more people can be assumed to have a national frame of reference than a broader international one, on the other hand, among those who do have an idea of how average people in other countries live, cross-border comparisons certainly influence people's satisfaction with life. Upward comparisons in particular are important: The more people feel personally deprived, relative to other countries, the less satisfied they are with their lives. In contrast, the feeling of relative gratification has a much smaller impact on life satisfaction, and often no impact at all. This leads us to conclude that EU-wide approaches to inequality do make sense, but that there is also no need to jettison national approaches completely." (author's abstract)
- Weitere Titel
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Von national begrenzten zu pan-europäischen Ungleichheiten? Zur Bedeutung anderer Staaten als Referenzgruppen
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Seite(n): 38
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion
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Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeit, Sozialstruktur und Sozialstaat, Abteilung Ungleichheit und soziale Integration (2005-204)
- Thema
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Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Erhebungstechniken und Analysetechniken der Sozialwissenschaften
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Methodenvergleich
Zufriedenheit
soziale Integration
Methode
Forschungsgegenstand
Forschungsansatz
internationaler Vergleich
Lebenssituation
Nationalstaat
soziale Ungleichheit
EU
Grundlagenforschung
deskriptive Studie
Methodenentwicklung
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Delhey, Jan
Kohler, Ulrich
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Veröffentlichung
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Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
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Deutschland, Berlin
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2005
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-117462
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Delhey, Jan
- Kohler, Ulrich
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Entstanden
- 2005
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