Faut-il une psychologie sociale des relations de domination intergroupes ?

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titleFaut-il une psychologie sociale des relations de domination intergroupes ?
start_date2005/11/22
schedule16h
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summaryStatus hierarchies have a decisive impact on social identification processes: high-status and low-status people adopt different, and often contrasting, identities. Specifically, there is a tendency for members of groups located at the top end of status hierarchies to indulge in their personal characteristics and to stress the heterogeneity of their ingroup, and for members of low-status groups to emphasize perceptual interchangeability between the self and other ingroup members. Five interpretations of this status effect are presented: cultural values, oppression, social attribution, covariation, and ideology. Combined, these interpretations support the hypothesis of a greater salience of personal identity in high-status groups, and a greater depersonalization of self-perception in lower status groups. It is concluded that these identity configurations derive from a tendency of the dominants to promote feelings of personal uniqueness to the most desirable form of social identification, and to downgrade collective identification to a lesser desirable form.
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