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Predicting community opposition to inclusion in schools: The role of social dominance, contact, intergroup anxiety, and economic conservatism. The Journal of Psychology, 144, 121–144.Google Scholar
- Jim Sidanius, Sarah Cotterill, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Nour Kteily, Héctor Carvacho
- 2016
- Psychological Theories
- The Frustration–Aggression Hypothesis
- Value and Value Conflict Theories
- Social-Psychological Theories
- Socialization and Social Learning Theories
- Modern Racism Theories
- Social Identity Theory (SIT)
The psychological approach to the understanding of racism, discrimina-tion, and stereotyping focuses primarily on the internal processes taking place within the individual. These models focus on (a) personality dynam-ics, (b) individuals’ basic values, anxieties, and beliefs, and (c) individuals’ information processing. Though these kinds of models...
One of the theoretically simplest versions of this new approach is the frustration–aggression hypothesis. In their effort to understand the out-break of ethnic, racial, and political barbarism that had broken out in Europe in the early part of the twentieth century, an interdisciplinary group of social scientists at Yale University formulated a sim...
Another psychological approach to prejudice and discrimination that fo-cuses on people’s underlying motivations concerns values theories. This approach was strongly championed by Milton Rokeach. Rokeach tried to understand people’s attitudes and beliefs about politics, outgroups, and social policies relevant to outgroups by examining people’s under...
Whereas strictly psychological models of prejudice, racism, and discrim-ination concentrate on internal and psychodynamic processes within the individual, social-psychological models place greater emphasis on the in-dividual’s connection to and embeddedness in the larger social context, the individual’s absorption of cultural and ideological norms,...
Perhaps the clearest example of a social-psychological model of prejudice, racism, and discrimination is the general socialization approach. This ap-proach assumes that the primary reason that individuals exhibit hostile, racist, and discriminatory behaviors toward others is because, from early childhoodon,theyhavebeensocializedandtrainedtofeelandb...
One prominent group of social learning theories of prejudice has been largely focused on Euro-American attitudes toward African-Americans. These theories have all essentially asserted that while blatant and extreme forms of racism against African-Americans are now relegated to the past, more subtle and indirect forms of racism remain. This residual...
The fact that neither group formation nor zero-sum structure is a neces-sary condition for discrimination was first discovered by Henri Tajfel and his colleagues in the early 1970s. Tajfel tried to devise an experiment in which the intergroup situation was quite minimal and lacked these two primary conditions that were hypothesized by realistic gro...
Jan 1, 2012 · Stated most simply, social dominance theory (SDT) argues that intergroup oppression, discrimination, and prejudice are the means by which human societies organize themselves as group-based ...
Jan 1, 2006 · This chapter reviews the last 15 years of research inspired by social dominance theory, a general theory of societal group-based inequality.
This paper addresses these claims and suggests how social dominance theory builds on and moves beyond social identity theory and system justification theory.
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. USE OF FORCE AND INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION.
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Jan 1, 2024 · The social dominance theory (SDT) is a multilevel dynamic model aimed at explaining the oppression, discrimination, brutality, and tyranny characterizing human societies as a function of several individual and societal variables.
