Screen LibraryA theory of system justification /
"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 f...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"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"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 385 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-368) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674244658 0674244656 |
| Index Number: | BF175 |
| CLC: | B845.9 |
| Call Number: | B845.9/J84 |
| Contents: |
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 -- 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 -- 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. |