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The psychology of legitimacy: emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations/ edited by John T. Jost, Brenda Major.

Contributor(s): John T. Jost | Brenda MajorMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: xvi, 477 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0521781604; 0521786991 (pb.)Subject(s): Social stratification | Stereotypes (Social psychology) | Intergroup relations | Rationalization (Psychology) | Legitimacy of governments | Organizational behaviorDDC classification: 305

Contents:

Part I: Introduction: 1. Emerging perspectives on the psychology of legitimacy John T. Jost and Brenda Major Part II. Historical Perspectives on Sociological and Psychological Theories of Legitimacy: 2. Theories of legitimacy Morris Zelditch, Jr. 3. Reflections on social and psychological processes of legitimization and delegitimization Herbert C. Kelman Part III. Cognitive and Perceptual Processes in the Appraisal of Legitimacy: 4. A perceptual theory of legitimacy: policies, prejudice, social institutions, and moral value Chris Crandall and Ryan Beasley 5. Blame it on the group: entitativity, subjective essentialism, and social attribution Vincent Yzerbyt and Anouk Rogier 6. Status vs. quo: naive realism and the search for social change and perceived legitimacy Robert J. Robinson and Laura Kray Part IV. The Tolerance of Injustice: Implications for Self and Society: 7. Tolerance and personal deprivation James M. Olson and Carolyn Hafer 8. Legitimacy and the construal of social advantage Brenda Major and Toni Schmader 9. Individual upward mobility and the perceived legitimacy of intergroup relations Naomi Ellemers 10. Restricted intergroup boundaries: tokenism, ambiguity and the tolerance of injustice Stephen C. Wright Part V. Sterotyping, Ideology and the Legitimation of Inequality: 11. The emergence of status beliefs: from structural inequality to legitimizing ideology Cecilia L. Ridgeway 12. Ambivalent stereotypes as legitimizing ideologies: differentiating paternalistic and envious prejudice Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske 13. Legitimizing ideologies: the social dominance approach Jim Sidanius, Shana Levin, Christopher M. Federico, and Felicia Pratto 14. The (il)legitimacy of intergroup bias: from social reality to social resistance Russell Spears, Jolanda Jetten and Bertjan Doosje 15. Conflicts of legitimation among self, group, and system: the integrative potential of system justification theory John T. Jost, Diana Burgess and Cristina Mosso Part VI. Institutional and Organizational Processes of Legitimation: 16. The architecture of legitimacy: constructing accounts of organizational controversies Kimberly D. Elsbach 17. A psychological perspective on the legitimacy of institutions and authorities Tom R. Tyler 18. License to kill: violence and legitimacy in expropriative social relations Mary R. Jackman.

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Proceedings of a conference held at Stanford University in Aug., 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction: 1. Emerging perspectives on the psychology of legitimacy John T. Jost and Brenda Major

Part II. Historical Perspectives on Sociological and Psychological Theories of Legitimacy:
2. Theories of legitimacy Morris Zelditch, Jr.
3. Reflections on social and psychological processes of legitimization and delegitimization Herbert C. Kelman

Part III. Cognitive and Perceptual Processes in the Appraisal of Legitimacy:
4. A perceptual theory of legitimacy: policies, prejudice, social institutions, and moral value Chris Crandall and Ryan Beasley
5. Blame it on the group: entitativity, subjective essentialism, and social attribution Vincent Yzerbyt and Anouk Rogier
6. Status vs. quo: naive realism and the search for social change and perceived legitimacy Robert J. Robinson and Laura Kray
Part IV. The Tolerance of Injustice: Implications for Self and Society: 7. Tolerance and personal deprivation James M. Olson and Carolyn Hafer
8. Legitimacy and the construal of social advantage Brenda Major and Toni Schmader
9. Individual upward mobility and the perceived legitimacy of intergroup relations Naomi Ellemers
10. Restricted intergroup boundaries: tokenism, ambiguity and the tolerance of injustice Stephen C. Wright

Part V. Sterotyping, Ideology and the Legitimation of Inequality:
11. The emergence of status beliefs: from structural inequality to legitimizing ideology Cecilia L. Ridgeway
12. Ambivalent stereotypes as legitimizing ideologies: differentiating paternalistic and envious prejudice Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske
13. Legitimizing ideologies: the social dominance approach Jim Sidanius, Shana Levin, Christopher M. Federico, and Felicia Pratto
14. The (il)legitimacy of intergroup bias: from social reality to social resistance Russell Spears, Jolanda Jetten and Bertjan Doosje
15. Conflicts of legitimation among self, group, and system: the integrative potential of system justification theory John T. Jost, Diana Burgess and Cristina Mosso
Part VI. Institutional and Organizational Processes of Legitimation: 16. The architecture of legitimacy: constructing accounts of organizational controversies Kimberly D. Elsbach
17. A psychological perspective on the legitimacy of institutions and authorities Tom R. Tyler
18. License to kill: violence and legitimacy in expropriative social relations Mary R. Jackman.

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