Social Dominance or System Justification? - The Acceptance of Inequality and Resistance to Social Change as Unique System-Relevant Motivations

Published: Oct 23, 2012
Abstract
System Justification (SJT; Jost & Banaji, 1994) and Social Dominance theories (SDT; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) both attempt to explain the legitimacy of unequal social systems and have often been conflated in the literature. We posit that both theories have uniquely highlighted two theoretically-orthogonal motivations to legitimize the social system: the resistance to social change (SJT) and the acceptance of inequality (SDT). This possibility was...
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Title
Social Dominance or System Justification? - The Acceptance of Inequality and Resistance to Social Change as Unique System-Relevant Motivations
Published Date
Oct 23, 2012
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