ABSTRACT
This chapter reports some early findings from three of the national surveys. The International Social Justice Project is the first comprehensive sociological survey of popular beliefs about distributive justice. Bearing in mind the number of items, the indices of reliability are generally satisfactory, with the possible exception of the justified inequalities scale for the United States, which should therefore be treated with caution in the analysis. A convenient illustration of the authors' argument is offered by the pay-bargaining strategies of different class organizations in postwar Sweden. The long-running attitudes versus action controversy, a debate that has taken place mostly among social psychologists, has culminated in "general agreement that attitude, no matter how assessed, is only one of the factors that influence behavior". The sociological and psychological evidence suggests that attitudes do not determine behavior, but they do provide relatively enduring predispositions to action, albeit leading to different behavioral outcomes in different concrete circumstances.
