Rationalizing poverty in New York: Tales from the middle class

Ali, Samira; Ohls, Carolina; Parker, Gary; Walker, Robert

doi:10.1080/10875549.2017.1419530

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“…Initially, system justification theory focused specifically on stereotyping, prejudice, and outgroup favouritism (Jost, ), but it was subsequently expanded to account for a much wider range of outcomes, including appraisals of fairness, justice, legitimacy, deservingness, and entitlement (Brandt & Reyna, ; Jost, ; Jost & Major, ; O'Brien, Major, & Gilbert, ; van der Toorn, Tyler, & Jost, ); attributions and explanations for poverty and inequality (Ali, Ohls, Parker, & Walker, ; Durrheim, Jacobs, & Dixon, ; Godfrey & Wolf, ); spontaneous and deliberate social inferences and judgements about individuals and groups (Jost, Kivetz, Rubini, Guermandi, & Mosso, ; Kay, Jost, & Young, ; Monteith, Burns, Rupp, & Mihalec‐Adkins, ); attitudes and opinions about social, economic, and political issues (Jost, Blount, Pfeffer, & Hunyady, ; Kay et al ., ; Mallett, Huntsinger, & Swim, ; Tan, Liu, Huang, & Zheng, ; van der Toorn, Jost, Packer, Noorbaloochi, & Van Bavel, ); rationalizations for certain sociopolitical outcomes or events (Kay, Jimenez, & Jost, ; Laurin, ); and full‐fledged political and religious ideologies (Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, ; Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, ; Jost et al ., , ).…”

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A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications

Jost

2018

British J Social Psychol

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A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J. Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation by disadvantaged individuals and groups in negative stereotypes of themselves' and the phenomenon of outgroup favouritism. The scope of the theory was subsequently expanded to account for a much wider range of outcomes, including appraisals of fairness, justice, legitimacy, deservingness, and entitlement; spontaneous and deliberate social judgements about individuals, groups, and events; and full-fledged political and religious ideologies. According to system justification theory, people are motivated (to varying degrees, depending upon situational and dispositional factors) to defend, bolster, and justify aspects of existing social, economic, and political systems. Engaging in system justification serves the palliative function of increasing satisfaction with the status quo and addresses underlying epistemic, existential, and relational needs to reduce uncertainty, threat, and social discord. This article summarizes the major tenets of system justification theory, reviews some of the empirical evidence supporting it, answers new (and old) questions and criticisms, and highlights areas of societal relevance and directions for future research.Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV, And you think you're so clever and classless and free. . .. (John Lennon, 'Working Class Hero')Learning to love the questions A theory of system justification was proposed by Jost and Banaji (1994) in a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology (BJSP) devoted to the structure and functions of social stereotyping. In that article, which is now 'celebrating' its 25th anniversary, we conjectured that in addition to ego-justifying and group-justifying tendencies to defend and rationalize the interests and esteem of the self and the ingroup, respectively, people exhibit system-justifying tendencies to defend and rationalize existing social, economic, and political arrangementssometimes even at the expense of individual and collective self-interest. Specifically, we felt that existing theories in social psychology did not

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A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications

Jost

2018

British J Social Psychol

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“…When a person in poverty is identified with another stigmatised groups the stigma is cumulative, the phenomenon of intersectionality. In New York, an African American who is poor will face discrimination on the grounds of both race and poverty; they are likely to be treated late in the welfare queue, a manifestation of administrative maltreatment and also to encounter social maltreatment within their own African-American community (Ali, Ohls, Parker and Walker, 2018).…”

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