Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory

Hövermann, Andreas; Groß, Eva; Zick, Andreas; Messner, Steven F.

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.03.001

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“…Of particular relevance for present purposes are efforts by Hövermann et al (2015aHövermann et al ( , 2015b to derive from IAT implications for an individual-level, social psychological orientation that they characterized as a 'marketized mentality'. Such a mentality entails an especially strong commitment to the principal values, evaluative standards, and logics of the market economy.…”

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Institutional imbalance, integration into Non-economic institutions, and a marketized mentality in Europe: A multilevel, partial elaboration of Institutional Anomie Theory

Hövermann

Groß

Messner

2016

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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This research builds upon prior efforts to transport insights from a macro-sociological theory of crime – Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT) – to enhance understanding of an important individual-level phenomenon in advanced capitalist societies – a ‘marketized mentality’. Such a mentality entails a strong commitment to the utilitarian, instrumental values of the market at the expense of more altruistic, expressive values. Drawing upon IAT, we hypothesize that at the individual level, integration into selected non-economic institutions will tend to inhibit the adoption of a marketized mentality, but the strength of this inhibiting effect will vary depending on the degree to which economic institutions and non-economic institutions in society are ‘balanced’ or ‘unbalanced’. Our theoretical arguments imply that observed levels of acceptance of a marketized mentality will vary significantly across societies and that this variation will be related to the degree of imbalance in the institutional order: We expect to observe a cross-level interaction such that the inhibiting effect of integration into non-economic institutions is attenuated as institutional imbalance increases. These hypotheses are assessed in multilevel analyses with data from 25 European countries using the European Social Survey. The results are generally in accordance with theoretical expectations, revealing how an institutional imbalance helps shape people’s value orientations by promoting marketized mentalities and by weakening the socialization effects of non-economic institutions.

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Institutional imbalance, integration into Non-economic institutions, and a marketized mentality in Europe: A multilevel, partial elaboration of Institutional Anomie Theory

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Messner

2016

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Na medida em que decaem a confiança nas instituições e a identidade nacional, enquanto consciência de pertencimento e sentimento de ligação ao país, crescem os sentimentos de anomia (normless) e de privação relativa. Vários estudos demostram que sujeitos desligados da estrutura social, insatisfeitos e anômicos são os mais susceptíveis a comportamentos disruptivos; seja de protesto político, seja de vandalismo e criminalidade ou ainda de rejeição às minorias sociais (Hövermann, Groß, Zick, & Messner, 2015;McDill, 1961;Srole, 1956).…”

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Identidade nacional e confiança nas instituições em contexto de crise no Brasil

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RESUMO: Com o objetivo de analisar a identidade nacional e a confiança nas instituições do Brasil no contexto da crise econômica e política realizamos uma pesquisa junto a uma amostra de 595 pessoas de 16 estados da federação. A identidade nacional é entendida como conteúdo e como processo; sendo construída no contexto das relações sociais e consubstanciada por valores, crenças e representações sociais. Os participantes responderam a um questionário online entre outubro de 2015 e março de 2016, suas idades variaram de 16 a 78 anos (M = 31.9, DP = 12.1 anos), 56.6% eram do sexo feminino. Os resultados indicaram um elevado nível de identificação com o Brasil: eles se sentem brasileiros, gostam muito de ser e sentem relativo orgulho desse pertencimento. Em relação ao conteúdo ou os significados da identidade nacional, observamos que se estruturam em três representações sociais ambivalentes, estando a mais consensual delas carregada de conotação política negativa e sendo objetivada, sobretudo, pela palavra “corrupção”. No que concerne ao nível de confiança nas instituições, verificamos que os participantes confiam apenas na instituição “Família” e desconfiam, principalmente, do poder executivo e dos partidos políticos. Observamos ainda que a identidade nacional se correlaciona positivamente com a confiança em todas as instituições políticas. Os resultados apontam para desafios à democracia representativa e para os efeitos dos processos de difusão, propagação e propaganda da mídia na construção das identidades e da confiança nas instituições nacionais.Palavras-chave: Brasil; representações sociais; identidade nacional; crise; confiança nas instituições.ABSTRACT: National identity and the confidence in the institutions of Brazil in the context of the economic and political crisis were analyzed in this study. National identity is understood as content and as process; being constructed in the context of social relations and embodied by values, beliefs and social representations. The data were collected with a sample of 595 people from 16 states of the federation. Participants answered a questionnaire online between October 2015 and March 2016, their ages ranged from 16 to 78 years (M = 31.9, SD = 12.1 years), 56.6% were female. The results indicated a high level of identification with Brazil: they feel Brazilian, like to be and feel relatively proud of their belonging. The contents or meanings of the national identity were structured in three ambivalent social representations, the strongest of them being loaded with negative political connotations and objectified, above all, by the word "corruption". Concerning the level of trust in the institutions, we find that the participants trust only in the "Family" and distrust, mainly, the executive power and the political parties. We also note that national identity correlates positively with trust in all political institutions. The results point to challenges to representative democracy and to the effects of media diffusion, propagation and propaganda processes in the construction of identities and trust in national institutions.Keywords: Brazil; social representations; national identity; crisis; trust in institutions.

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“…In a previous study, Hövermann and colleagues (2015) have reported evidence suggesting that insights from IAT can be usefully applied to explain devaluations toward selected ‘unprofitable’ groups. The present analyses go beyond this prior work by incorporating anomia as well as other important predictors of prejudices in the model to determine if marketization processes exhibit any effect on prejudices net of a wider range of well-established covariates.…”

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Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups

Hövermann

Messner

Zick³

2015

Acta Sociologica

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This paper discusses systematically different concepts of anomie as an explanation of Groupfocused Enmity (GFE) against selected groups in society. The GFE research programme has demonstrated the utility of applying the concept of 'anomia' -an individual reaction to disruptions in the normative order -to explain prejudices against vulnerable groups. This paper extends the GFE research programme by incorporating insights from Institutional Anomie Theory, a theoretical perspective originally introduced in the criminological literature. Drawing upon this, it develops a theoretical model that links perceptions of weakened non-economic institutions with prejudices against groups that are readily seen as being 'unprofitable'. These perceptions are theorized to affect prejudices against such groups via a pathway of 'marketized' attitudes and orientations, net of any influence of anomia. This paper's theoretical model was assessed with data from a representative survey of the German population (n ¼ 840). The results of Structural Equation Modelling support most of the main hypotheses, revealing the additional value for prejudice research of measuring the individual experience of anomie not only as anomia but also with respect to processes of marketization.

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Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory

Cited by 30 publications

References 28 publications

Institutional imbalance, integration into Non-economic institutions, and a marketized mentality in Europe: A multilevel, partial elaboration of Institutional Anomie Theory

Institutional imbalance, integration into Non-economic institutions, and a marketized mentality in Europe: A multilevel, partial elaboration of Institutional Anomie Theory

Identidade nacional e confiança nas instituições em contexto de crise no Brasil

Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups

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