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- Social dominance theory describes how processes at different levels of social organization, from cultural ideologies and institutional discrimination to gender roles and the psychology of prejudice, work together to produce stable group - based inequality.
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Apr 19, 2018 · a general model of the development and maintenance of social dominance and oppression that assumes societies minimize group conflict by creating consensus on ideologies that promote the superiority of one group over others.
- SDO Differences Between Demographic Groups
- Relationships with Personality and Individual-Difference Dimensions
- Relationships with Intergroup Attitudes and Prejudice
- Relationships with Social Ideologies and Policy Positions
- Criticism of The Predictive Value and Role of SDO
Research has found gender, ethnic, and cross-national differences in SDO. Men are consistently found to have higher SDO than women (e.g., Ho et al. 2015; Pratto et al. 1994, 2000). SDO also shows ethnic/racial differences (e.g., Ho et al. 2015; Sidanius and Pratto 1999), with higher SDO among groups of high status (e.g., White Americans) compared t...
SDO has also been found to share negative relationships with several socially desirable personality traits, and positive relationships with several socially undesirable traits. In particular, SDO is negatively correlated with agreeableness (e.g., Hodson et al. 2009), as well as honesty–humility, emotionality, and openness to experience (e.g., Sible...
Consistent with the dual-process model, SDO consistently predicts prejudice against a wide variety of stigmatized or disadvantaged groups, including women, the poor, ethnic/racial minorities, LGBTQ people, immigrants, and refugees (e.g., Altemeyer 1996; Ho et al. 2015; Pratto et al. 1994; Sidanius and Pratto 1999). Although these findings are corre...
Beyond attitudes and behavior towards specific outgroups, SDO predicts endorsement of a range of group-relevant social ideologies (Ho et al. 2015). It generally does so in ways that are consistent with the individual-level group-hierarchy-supporting conception of SDO proposed by social dominance theory (e.g., Sidanius and Pratto 1993, 1999, 2012) a...
Although SDO has been widely studied and found to predict a range of attitudes and behaviors, some disagreement remains as to its conceptualization and causal nature. For example, some researchers have contended that rather than a personality-rooted individual difference variable, SDO is better conceptualized as an attitudinal outcome of social con...
Jan 1, 2024 · Among the psychological variables that promote social inequalities, the main role is played by social dominance orientation (SDO), the most crucial and developed construct in the SDT.
- michele.roccato@unito.it
Having made this basic observation of the near ubiquity of group-based social inequality, social dominance theory (SDT; Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994; Sidanius, 1993; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) argues that many familiar types of group-based oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, nationalism, classism, religious intolerance, hostility ...
- Jim Sidanius, Sarah Cotterill, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Nour Kteily, Héctor Carvacho
- 2016
Social Dominance Theory (SDT; e.g., Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) is an attempt to combine social psychological theories of intergroup relations with wider social process of ideology and the legitimization of social inequalities.
- Gazi Islam
- gislamster@gmail.com
This chapter outlines the intellectual and personal influences on the development of social dominance theory (SDT). Social dominance theory examines how societies organize themselves as group-based social hierarchies.
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Dec 15, 2011 · Social dominance theory describes how processes at different levels of social organization, from cultural ideologies and institutional discrimination to gender roles and the psychology of ...
