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Beyond prejudice: Relational inequality, collective action, and social change revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2012

John Dixon ,
Mark Levine ,
Steve Reicher  and
Kevin Durrheim
John Dixon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom. john.dixon@open.ac.uk http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=John_Dixon
Mark Levine
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Exeter University, Exeter, Devon EX4 4SB, United Kingdom. m.levine@exeter.ac.uk http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/index.php?web_id=Mark_Levine
Steve Reicher
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AJ, Scotland, United Kingdom. sdr@st-andrews.ac.uk http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sp/people/lect/sdr.shtml
Kevin Durrheim
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 3209, South Africa. durrheim@ukzn.ac.za http://psychology.ukzn.ac.za/staff.aspx
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Abstract

This response clarifies, qualifies, and develops our critique of the limits of intergroup liking as a means of challenging intergroup inequality. It does not dispute that dominant groups may espouse negative attitudes towards subordinate groups. Nor does it dispute that prejudice reduction can be an effective way of tackling resulting forms of intergroup hostility. What it does dispute is the assumption that getting dominant group members and subordinate group members to like each other more is the best way of improving intergroup relations that are characterized by relatively stable, institutionally embedded, relations of inequality. In other words, the main target of our critique is the model of change that underlies prejudice reduction interventions and the mainstream concept of “prejudice” on which they are based.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 6 , December 2012 , pp. 451 - 466
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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