PSY 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Dominance Orientation, Gordon Allport, Gender Role
27 Aug 2019
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Some prejudice definitions include positive judgments, but nearly all uses of prejudice refer to negative ones. What gordon allport termed in his classic book, the nature of prejudice, an antipathy based upon a faulty and inflexible generalization . To simplify the world, we generalize: the british are reserved. Prejudice is a negative attitude; discrimination is negative behavior. Discriminatory behavior often has its source in prejudicial attitudes (dovidio et al. , 1996; Those high in social dominance orientation tend to view people in terms of hierarchies. They like their own social groups to be high status - they prefer being on the top. Being in a dominant, high-status position also tends to promote this orientation. Jim sidanius, felicia pratto, and their colleagues argue that this desire to be on top leads people argue high in social dominance to embrace prejudice and to support political positions that justify prejudice.
