Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 385 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780674247192
Inhalt:
A new "discourse of voluntary servitude" -- What is social justice? -- Intellectual precursors, major postulates, and practical relevance of system justification theory -- Stereotyping 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 self, 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 -- The subjugation and self-subjugation of girls and women -- Belief in a just God (and a just society) : religion as a form of system justification -- Overcoming resistance to change and motivated skepticism about climate change -- Why men and women do and don't rebel -- System justification theory twenty-five years later : criticisms, rebuttals, and future directions.
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:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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In English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780674244658
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780674244658
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674247192
