A conservative's social psychology

McCauley, Clark

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“…We contend here that ethnicity as a phenomenon is special, and we agree with other researchers who see ethnicity as an important, unique, and distinct social grouping (van den Berghe, 1978Berghe, , 1981McCauley, 2008McCauley, , 2015Worchel, 1999), which has had a huge appeal to people over millennia. Forty years ago, van den Berghe (1981) wrote The Ethnic Phenomenon, which claimed that ethnic groups are a special form of sociality, built around kinship groups and nepotism, which cannot be reduced to any other form of sociality.…”

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“…Although other social groups, such as religious groups, have engaged in wars, genocide has been reserved for ethnic groups. Furthermore, ethnic groups, although in part social constructions, are also based on real biological similarities between ingroup members (McCauley, 2015), where intermarriage has been practiced for many generations (van den Berghe, 1999). Even modern biology and medicine acknowledge certain biological similarities within, and differences between, ethnic groups (Burchard et al, 2003; McCauley, 2015).…”

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The Return of Ethnocentrism

Bizumić

Monaghan

Priest

2020

Political Psychology

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The concept of ethnocentrism was introduced by Gumplowicz in the 1870s, popularized by Sumner in the 1900s, and first investigated psychometrically by Adorno and colleagues in the 1940s. It has become a fundamental concept in the social sciences, but over the last several decades, its popularity and usage in political and social psychology have decreased. Recent events, such as the growing popularity of ethno‐nationalist and populist leaders and policies, show that ethnocentrism as a phenomenon has been resurging around the world. In addition, given its important explanatory power, an increasing number of political psychologists have started again to use the concept. This article presents an analysis of ethnocentrism reconceptualized as a hierarchical construct emanating from a strong sense of ethnic group self‐centeredness and self‐importance. It discusses the prevalence of ethnocentrism around the world, its conceptualization and measurement, and its theoretical underpinnings, supporting them with novel empirical research conducted with two abbreviated measures of ethnocentrism. The article argues that ethnocentrism ultimately stems from the need to strengthen one's own ethnic group at the expense of anyone who and anything that can weaken it.

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The Return of Ethnocentrism

Bizumić

Monaghan

Priest

2020

Political Psychology

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“…Then there were commentators who welcomed viewpoint diversity in general but considered affirmative action for conservatives an unrealistic means to achieve it because it would be too risky for junior scholars to admit their conservative leanings (Everett, 2015). This resulted in a catch-22: as long as liberals dominated the university, search committees would not value conservatives as minority candidates, and as long as conservatives weren't pursued as minority candidates, liberals would continue to dominate the university (McCauley, 2015). Other researchers argued that the overrepresentation of liberals was not simply a matter of discrimination but of self-selection based on biologically rooted personality differences between liberals and conservatives.…”

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The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures

Langlitz,

de Althaus

2023

History of the Human Sciences

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We may well be witnessing a decisive event in the history of knowledge as diversity is becoming one of the premier values of late modern societies. We seek to preserve and foster biodiversity, neurodiversity, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, gender diversity, linguistic diversity, cultural diversity, and perspectival diversity. Perspectival diversity has become the passage point through which other forms of diversity must pass to become epistemically consequential. This article examines how two of its varieties, viewpoint diversity and educational diversity, have come to transform the moral economy of science. Both aim at multiplying perspectives on a given subject, but their political subtexts differ markedly. The valorization of educational diversity followed a US Supreme Court decision in 1978 that enabled universities to advance social justice, if they justified race-conscious admissions in terms of the pedagogic benefits of a more diverse student body for all. By contrast, the proponents of viewpoint diversity aim at the reform of scientific knowledge production and distribution rather than the reallocation of status and power among different social groups. We examine the political epistemology of viewpoint diversity by analyzing a controversy between social psychologists who, amid the American culture wars of the 2010s, debated how to rein in their political biases in a scientific field supposedly lacking political diversity. Out of this scientific controversy grew Heterodox Academy, an activist organization promoting viewpoint diversity in higher education. By relating and comparing viewpoint and educational diversity, we clarify what is at stake epistemically in the US-centric moral economy of diversity.

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A conservative's social psychology

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The Return of Ethnocentrism

The Return of Ethnocentrism

The moral economy of diversity: How the epistemic value of diversity transforms late modern knowledge cultures

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