The Psychology of Legitimacy
Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations
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- Editors:
- John T. Jost, New York University
- Brenda Major, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Date Published: October 2001
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521786997
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This book, first published in 2001, summarizes and integrates the best social scientific research in a previously neglected but rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation and de-legitimation in social relations. Contributors are leading researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, and organizational behavior, and the themes they cover are overlapping and mutually informative. The book is constructed primarily around the authors and their theories, and there is an uncommon degree of cross talk amongst the authors. The chapters converge on key questions concerning the ways in which people construct ideological justifications or rationalizations for their own actions and for the actions of others taken on behalf of valued groups and systems. The result is a general approach to the psychological basis of social inequality, which may be applied to distinctions of race, gender, social class, occupational status, and many other forms of inequality.
Read more- Offers research on, and unified insight to legitimacy, a previously neglected topic in psychology
- Provides the application of basic research to social problems such as inequality, prejudice, and discrimination
- The contributors are very prominent, esteemed sociological, psychological, and organizational researchers
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- Date Published: October 2001
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521786997
- length: 494 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 162 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.67kg
- contains: 31 b/w illus. 15 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction:
1. Emerging perspectives on the psychology of legitimacy John T. Jost and Brenda Major
Part II. Historical Perspectives on Sociological and Psychological Theories of Legitimacy:
2. Theories of legitimacy Morris Zelditch, Jr
3. Reflections on social and psychological processes of legitimization and delegitimization Herbert C. Kelman
Part III. Cognitive and Perceptual Processes in the Appraisal of Legitimacy:
4. A perceptual theory of legitimacy: policies, prejudice, social institutions, and moral value Chris Crandall and Ryan Beasley
5. Blame it on the group: entitativity, subjective essentialism, and social attribution Vincent Yzerbyt and Anouk Rogier
6. Status vs. quo: naive realism and the search for social change and perceived legitimacy Robert J. Robinson and Laura Kray
Part IV. The Tolerance of Injustice: Implications for Self and Society:
7. Tolerance and personal deprivation James M. Olson and Carolyn Hafer
8. Legitimacy and the construal of social advantage Brenda Major and Toni Schmader
9. Individual upward mobility and the perceived legitimacy of intergroup relations Naomi Ellemers
10. Restricted intergroup boundaries: tokenism, ambiguity and the tolerance of injustice Stephen C. Wright
Part V. Sterotyping, Ideology and the Legitimation of Inequality:
11. The emergence of status beliefs: from structural inequality to legitimizing ideology Cecilia L. Ridgeway
12. Ambivalent stereotypes as legitimizing ideologies: differentiating paternalistic and envious prejudice Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske
13. Legitimizing ideologies: the social dominance approach Jim Sidanius, Shana Levin, Christopher M. Federico, and Felicia Pratto
14. The (il)legitimacy of intergroup bias: from social reality to social resistance Russell Spears, Jolanda Jetten and Bertjan Doosje
15. Conflicts of legitimation among self, group, and system: the integrative potential of system justification theory John T. Jost, Diana Burgess and Cristina Mosso
Part VI. Institutional and Organizational Processes of Legitimation:
16. The architecture of legitimacy: constructing accounts of organizational controversies Kimberly D. Elsbach
17. A psychological perspective on the legitimacy of institutions and authorities Tom R. Tyler
18. License to kill: violence and legitimacy in expropriative social relations Mary R. Jackman.
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