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- The theory proposes that widely shared cultural ideologies (“legitimizing myths”) provide the moral and intellectual justification for these intergroup behaviors by serving to make privilege normal.
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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 prejudice, work together to produce stable group-based inequality.
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Social dominance theory (SDT) argues that all human societies form group-based hierarchies. A social hierarchy is where some individuals receive greater prestige, power or wealth than others.
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.
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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...
SDT argues that there are essentially three related, yet qualitatively distinct types of group-based social hierarchy. The first type of hierarchical system is the “age system,” in which those considered to be “adults” have more social, economic, and political power than those considered “juveniles.”
- Jim Sidanius, Sarah Cotterill, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Nour Kteily, Héctor Carvacho
- 2016
The authors tested three hypotheses from social dominance theory in four cultures: (a) that individual differences in social dominance orientation (SDO), or the preference for group-based inequality, can be reliably measured in societies that are group-based hegemonies; (b) that SDO correlates positively with attitudes supporting hegemonic ...
Jan 1, 2020 · Social dominance theory (e.g., Sidanius and Pratto 1993, 1999, 2012) is a multilevel theory of intergroup relations aimed at explaining the ubiquity of inequality and discrimination between social groups. The theory proposes that group-based hierarchy is dynamically self-sustaining, even in the face of varied and dramatic social change.
