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Social dominance theory. Social dominance theory (SDT) is a social psychological theory of intergroup relations that examines the caste -like features [1] of group-based social hierarchies, and how these hierarchies remain stable and perpetuate themselves. [2] According to the theory, group-based inequalities are maintained through three ...
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 toward the mentally ill) are essentially particular ...
- Jim Sidanius, Sarah Cotterill, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Nour Kteily, Héctor Carvacho
- 2016
In con-. trast, social dominance theory distinguishes among group relations based on. gender, those based on the adult-child distinction, and those based on the most. salient groups in a society (such as those based on race, ethnicity, religion, nation-. ality, or class), which we call the "arbitrary-set" distinction.
Jan 1, 2024 · The SDT is rooted in the literature on attitudes to authority, especially the authoritarian personality theory (Adorno et al. 1950), Sidanius’ theory on conservatism, Rokeach’s two-value theory of political behavior, Blumer’s group position theory, Marxist theories, and social identity theory, which considers prejudice and discrimination as the consequence of an intergroup bias aimed at ...
- michele.roccato@unito.it
- 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...
Dec 15, 2011 · Social dominance theory is a multi-level theory of how societies maintain groupbased dominance. Nearly all stable societies can be considered group-based dominance hierarchies, in which one social group- often an ethnic, religious, national, or racial one- holds disproportionate power and enjoys special privileges, and at least one other group has relatively little political power or ease in ...
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Definition. SDT is a theory of social and intergroup relations that focuses on how people develop hierarchy supporting belief structures as a support for institutional dominance. It involves studies of who is likely to hold such attitudes, how they come to do so, and what are the ramifications for thought and action.
