The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup RelationsJohn T. Jost, Brenda Major This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences. |
Contents
Emerging Perspectives on the Psychology of Legitimacy | 3 |
Theories of Legitimacy | 33 |
Reflections on Social and Psychological Processes | 54 |
Politics Prejudice | 77 |
Entitativity Subjective Essentialism | 103 |
Naive Realism and the Search for Social | 135 |
Legitimacy and the Construal of Social Disadvantage | 176 |
Individual Upward Mobility and the Perceived Legitimacy | 205 |
Tokenism Ambiguity | 223 |
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