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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression - Sidanius, Jim, and Pratto, Felicia
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This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, classism and patriarchy, are all basically derived from the basic human predisposition to form and maintain hierarchical and group ...

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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression 2001, Cambridge University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780521805407

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