WHERE CAN I GET EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON INEQUALITY!?!?
Journals can be consulted free off the shelves in any university library. As long as you don’t want to take a book/journal out there is usually no problem about gaining access & consulting them in the building. However, beware of data collected by someone else. Unless you are in charge of the sampling, the questions to be asked, (and above all the questions and variables judged too insignificant to count, and therefore neglected) the danger is that you will, all unknowing, be swept along by other people’s prejudices. Data is usually collected to support someone’s hypothesis. In hard physical science there is a natural check on accidental or intentional bias which sooner or later will reveal it: the results must be repeatable. In the social sciences nobody expects experiments to be repeatable. The concept of falsification hardly exists. It follows that someone else’s data must always, always, be treated as suspect. If at all possible, do your own research. Collect your own data. Good lu
