System Justification - How Power Persists and Inequality Thrives
Fouad Sabry
Casa editrice: One Billion Knowledgeable
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System Justification explores the psychological mechanisms driving individuals to defend and uphold current social, economic, and political systems. It offers a fresh perspective, challenging conventional views on resistance and societal change. In political science, grasping system justification is vital to understanding societal stability and transformation. Chapters Overview: 1: System justification - Uncover how people rationalize and support existing structures. 2: Prejudice - Discover how system justification shapes prejudices and intergroup dynamics. 3: Out-group homogeneity - Learn how stereotypes reinforce social divisions. 4: In-group favoritism - Understand biases that support power hierarchies. 5: Social dominance orientation - Explore preferences for group inequality. 6: In-group and out-group - Examine intergroup dynamics and their societal effects. 7: Social dominance theory - Analyze group-based hierarchies' relationship with system justification. 8: Social identity theory - Investigate how group identity fosters support for existing systems. 9: Self-categorization theory - Study how group identification shapes social attitudes. 10: Integrated threat theory - Understand how perceived out-group threats reinforce system justification. 11: Black sheep - Explore how deviant in-group members reinforce norms. 12: Optimal distinctiveness theory - Investigate balancing inclusion and distinctiveness in system justification. 13: Stereotype - Examine how stereotypes support the status quo. 14: Self-stereotyping - Discover how internalized stereotypes impact social attitudes. 15: Collective narcissism - Learn how group pride reinforces existing structures. 16: Implicit stereotype - Investigate unconscious biases that support system justification. 17: Intergroup anxiety - Examine how anxiety strengthens system justification. 18: John Jost - Insights into Jost’s contributions to system justification theory. 19: Metastereotype - Learn how perceptions of group stereotypes affect system support. 20: Diversity ideologies - Analyze how diversity views impact societal systems. 21: Axes of Subordination - Explore intersections of subordination in system justification. System Justification is a crucial text for students and professionals in political science, offering a deep dive into the psychological forces that maintain societal stability.
Disponibile da: 09/10/2024.
Lunghezza di stampa: 221 pagine.
