Social dominance orientation and intergroup bias: The legitimation of favoritism for high-status groups

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 144-157

  Levin, Shana ^a   Federico, Christopher M ^b   Sidanius, Jim ^c   Rabinowitz, Joshua L ^d  

^a CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044531387     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167202282002     Document Type: Review

References (56)

1. Abrams, D., & Hogg, M. A. ( 1988). Comments on the motivational status of self-esteem in social identity and intergroup discrimination. European Journal of Social Psychology, 18, 317-334.
2. Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G. (1991). Multiple regression: Testing and interpreting interactions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
3. Brewer, M. B. (1979). In group bias in the minimal intergroup situation: A cognitive-motivational analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 86, 307-324.
4. Brewer, M. B., & Brown, R. (1998). Intergroup relations. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 554-594). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
5. Brewer, M. B., & Kramer, R. M. (1985). The psychology of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Annual Review of Psychology, 36, 219-243.
6. Caddick, B. (1982). Perceived illegitimacy and intergroup relations. In H. Tajfel (Ed.), Social identity and intergroup relations (pp. 137-154). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
7. Ellemers, N. (1993). The influence of socio-structural variables on identity management strategies. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European review of social psychology (Vol. 4). London: Wiley.
8. Ellemers, N., van Rijswijk, W., Roefs, M., & Simons, C. (1997). Bias in intergroup perceptions: Balancing group identity with social reality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 186-198.
9. Ellemers, N., Wilke, H., & van Knippenberg, A. (1993). Effects of the legitimacy of low group or individual status on individual and collective status-enhancement strategies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64, 766-778.
10. Federico, C. (1999). The interactive effects of social dominance orientation, group status, and perceived stability on favoritism for high-status groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2, 119-144.
11. Federico, C. M., & Levin, S. (2001). Ideology and the affective consequences of group status. Manuscript submitted for publication.
12. Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks. New York: International Publishers.
13. Gross, S. R., & Mauro, R. (1989). Death and discrimination: Racial disparities in capital sentencing. Boston: Northwestern University Press.
14. Hinkle, S., & Brown, R. (1990). Intergroup comparisons and social identity: Some links and lacunae. In D. Abrams & M. Hogg (Eds.), Advances in social identity theory (pp. 48-70). New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
15. Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (1990a). Social identifications. London: Routledge.
16. Hogg, M. A., & Abrams, D. (1990b). Social motivation, self-esteem, and social identity. In D. Abrams & M. A. Hogg (Eds.), Social identity theory: Constructive and critical advances (pp. 48-70). New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf.
17. Jost, J. T. (1995). Negative illusions: Conceptual clarification and psychological evidence concerning false consciousness. Political Psychology, 16, 397-424.
18. Jost, J. T., Burgess, D., & Mosso, C. (in press). Crises of legitimation among self, group, and system: A theoretical integration. In J. T. Jost & B. Major (Eds.), The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
19. Jost, J. T., & Thompson, E. P. (2000). Group-based dominance and opposition to equality as independent predictors of self-esteem, ethnocentrism, and social policy attitudes among African Americans and European Americans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 36, 209-232.
20. Levin, S. (1996). A social psychological approach to understanding intergroup attitudes in the United States and Israel. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.
21. Levin, S., & Sidanius, J. (1999). Social dominance and social identity in the United States and Israel: Ingroup favoritism or outgroup derogation? Political Psychology, 20, 99-126.
22. Levin, S., Sidanius, J., Rabinowitz, J. L., & Federico, C. (1998). Ethnic identity, legitimizing ideologies and social status: A matter of ideological asymmetry. Political Psychology, 19, 373-404.
23. Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1970). The German ideology (C. J. Arthur, Trans.). New York: International Publishers. (Original work published 1846)
24. Mercer, G. W., & Cairns, E. (1981). Conservatism and its relationship to general and specific ethnocentrism in Northern Ireland. British Journal of Social Psychology, 20, 13-16.
25. Messick, D. M., & Mackie, D. M. (1989). Intergroup relations. Annual Review of Psychology, 40, 45-81.
26. Mitchell, M., & Sidanius, J. (1993). Group status and asymmetry in the relationship between ideology and death penalty support: Asocial dominance perspective. National Journal of Sociology, 7, 67-93.
27. Mosca, G. (1939). The ruling class (H. Kahn, Trans.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
28. Mullen, B., Brown, R., & Smith, C. (1992). Ingroup bias as a function of salience, relevance, and status: An integration. European Journal of Social Psychology, 22(2), 103-122.
29. Paternoster, R. (1984). Prosecutorial discretion in requesting the death penalty: A case of victim-based racial discrimination. Law and Society Review, 18, 437-478.
30. Pedhazur, E. J. (1982). Multiple regression in behavioral research. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
31. Pratto, F., Sidanius, J., Stallworth, L. M., & Malle, B. F. (1994). Social dominance orientation: A personality variable predicting social and political attitudes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 741-763.
32. Rabinowitz, J. L. (1999). Go with the flow or fight the power? The interactive effects of social dominance orientation and perceived injustice on support for the status quo. Political Psychology, 20, 1-24.
33. Sachdev, I., & Bourhis, R. Y. (1987). Status differentials and intergroup behavior. European Journal of Social Psychology, 17, 277-293.
34. Sachdev, I., & Bourhis, R. Y. (1991). Power and status differentials in minority and majority group relations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 21, 1-24.
35. Schuman, H., Steeh, C., Bobo, L., & Krysan, M. (1997). Racial attitudes in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
36. Sears, D. O. (1988). Symbolic racism. In P. A. Katz & D. A. Taylor (Eds.), Eliminating racism: Profiles in controversy (pp. 53-84). New York: Plenum.
37. Sidanius, J., (1993). The psychology of group conflict and the dynamics of oppression: A social dominance perspective. In S. Iyengar & W.J. McGuire (Eds.), Explorations in political psychology (pp. 183-219). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
38. Sidanius, J. Levin, S., Federico, C. M., & Pratto, F. (in press). Legitimizing ideologies: The social dominance approach. In J. T. Jost & B. Major (Eds.), The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
39. Sidanius, J., Levin, S., Liu, J., & Pratto, F. (2000). Social dominance orientation, anti-egalitarianism, and the political psychology of gender: An extension and cross-cultural replication. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 41-67.
40. Sidanius, J., Levin, S., Rabinowitz, J. L., & Federico, C. M. (1999). Peering into the jaws of the beast: The integrative dynamics of social identity, symbolic racism, and social dominance. In D. A. Prentice & D. T. Miller (Eds.), Cultural divides: Understanding and overcoming group conflict (pp. 80-132). New York: Russell Sage.
41. Sidanius, J., & Pratto, F. (1993). The inevitability of oppression and the dynamics of social dominance. In P. M. Sniderman, P. E. Tetlock, & E. G. Carmines (Eds.), Prejudice, politics, and the American dilemma (pp. 173-211). Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
42. Sidanius, J., & Pratto, F. (1999). Social dominance: An intergroup theory of social hierarchy and oppression. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
43. Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., & Bobo, L. (1994). Social dominance orientation and the political psychology of gender: A case of invariance? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67, 998-1011.
44. Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., & Bobo, L. (1996). Racism, conservatism, affirmative action, and intellectual sophistication: A matter of princi pled conservatism or group dominance? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 476-490.
45. Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., Martin, M., & Stallworth, L. (1991). Consensual racism and career track: Some implications of social dominance theory. Political Psychology, 12, 691-721.
46. Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., & Mitchell, M. (1994). Ingroup identification, social dominance orientation, and differential intergroup social allocation. Journal of Social Psychology, 134, 151-167.
47. Sidanius, J., Pratto, F., & Rabinowitz, J. L. (1994). Gender, ethnic status, and ideological asymmetry: A social dominance interpretation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 25, 194-216.
48. Sidanius, J., Singh, P., Hetts, J.J., & Federico, C. (2000). It's not affirmative action, it's the Blacks: The continuing relevance of race in American politics. In D. O. Sears, J. Sidanius, & L. Bobo (Eds.), Racialized politics: The debate about racism in America (pp. 191-235). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
49. Smith, T. W. (1991). What do Americans think about Jews? Working papers on contemporary anti-Semitism. New York: American Jewish Committee, Institute of Human Relations.
50. Smooha, S. (1992). Arabs and Jews in Israel: Change and continuity in mutual intolerance. Boulder, CO: Westview.
51. Sniderman, P. M., & Piazza, T. (1993). The scar of race. Cambridge, MA: Belknap.
52. Tajfel, H., & Turner.J. C. (1986). The social identity theory of intergroup behavior. In S. Worchel & W. Austin (Eds.), The psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 7-24). Chicago: Nelson-Hall.
53. Taylor, D. M., Moghaddam, F. M, Gamble, I., & Zellerer, E. (1987). Disadvantaged group responses to perceived inequality: From passive acceptance to collective action. Journal of Social Psychology, 127, 259-272.
54. Turner, J. C. (1978). Social comparison, similarity, and ingroup favoritism. In H. Tajfel (Ed.), Differentiation between social groups (pp. 235-250). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
55. Turner, J. C., & Brown, R.J. (1978). Social status, cognitive alternatives and intergroup relations. In H. Tajfel (Ed.), Differentiation between socialgroups (pp. 201-234). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
56. Weber, M. (1947). The theory of social and economic organization (A. M. Henderson & T. Parsons, Trans.). New York: Oxford University-Press.