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Prejudice is about politics: A collective action perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2012

John Drury
John Drury*
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University of Sussex, School of Psychology, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, United Kingdom. j.drury@sussex.ac.uk http://drury.socialpsychology.org/
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Abstract

In line with Dixon et al.'s argument, I contend that prejudice should be understood in broadly political rather than in narrowly psychological terms. First, what counts as prejudice is a political judgement. Second, studies of collective action demonstrate that it is in “political” struggles, where subordinate groups together oppose dominant groups, that prejudice can be overcome.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 430 - 431
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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