UID:
almafu_9961448638502883
Umfang:
1 online resource (402 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
0-674-24717-5
,
0-674-24719-1
Inhalt:
"Psychologist John T. Jost has spent decades researching poor people who vote for policies of inequality and women who think men deserve higher salaries. He argues that the persecuted often justify and defend the very social systems that oppress them because doing so serves a fundamental need for certainty, security, and social acceptance"--
Anmerkung:
A new discourse on "voluntary servitude" -- Social justice: history, theory, and research -- Intellectual precursors, major postulates, and practical relevance of system justification theory -- The role of stereotyping in system-justification and the production of false consciousness -- The psychology of system justification: eighteen hypotheses about rationalization of the status quo, internalization of inferiority, and potential conflicts among ego, group, and system justification motives -- Does a sense of powerlessness foster the legitimation of authority and hierarchy? -- "Poor but happy": the system-justifying potential of complementary stereotypes -- On the subjugation and self-subjugation of girls and women -- Belief in a just god (and a just society): a system justification perspective on religious ideology -- Overcoming resistance to change and motivated skepticism about global warming -- Why men and women do and don't rebel: a system justification perspective on protest and collective action -- System justification theory twenty-five years later: criticisms, rebuttals, and future directions.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-674-24465-6
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4159/9780674247192
