Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule Violations.
Are upper-class individuals more inclined to violate rules? Using behavioural data, recent studies have challenged the traditional assumption of upper social class members being less rule violating, while other studies find no or opposite effects. We bring together behavioural decision-making games...
| Publicado en: | European Sociological Review Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 14 - 30 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Feb2023
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