Legitimization and delegitimization of social hierarchy
Authors:
- Wiesław Baryła,
- Bogdan Wojciszke,
- Aleksandra Cichocka
Abstract
Although status and wealth are related facets of social stratification, their association is only moderate. In this article, we demonstrate that justification of wealth versus status can be independent processes. To this end, we introduce a novel, nondeclarative measure of system justification. The measure is based on within-individual correlations between the judgments of how a group ‘‘is doing’’ and how it ‘‘should be doing.’’ Two studies demonstrated that the between-group differentiation in terms of material wealth was delegitimized—the more a group was perceived as wealthy, the less it was desired to be wealthy. However, the between-group differentiation in terms of status was generally legitimized—the more a group was perceived as influential, the more it was desired to be influential. We conclude by discussing the role of sociopolitical context in active legitimization and delegitimization of different aspects of the system. Keywords: system justification, delegitimization, status, wealth
- Record ID
- IMPORT-ARTICLE-00017754
- Author
- Journal series
- Social Psychological and Personality Science, ISSN 1948-5506
- Issue year
- 2015
- Vol
- 6
- No
- 6
- Pages
- 669-676
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.50
- ASJC Classification
- ;
- Abstract in Polish
- Although status and wealth are related facets of social stratification, their association is only moderate. In this article, we demonstrate that justification of wealth versus status can be independent processes. To this end, we introduce a novel, nondeclarative measure of system justification. The measure is based on within-individual correlations between the judgments of how a group ‘‘is doing’’ and how it ‘‘should be doing.’’ Two studies demonstrated that the between-group differentiation in terms of material wealth was delegitimized—the more a group was perceived as wealthy, the less it was desired to be wealthy. However, the between-group differentiation in terms of status was generally legitimized—the more a group was perceived as influential, the more it was desired to be influential. We conclude by discussing the role of sociopolitical context in active legitimization and delegitimization of different aspects of the system. Keywords: system justification, delegitimization, status, wealth
- DOI
- DOI:10.1177/1948550615576211 opening in a new tab
- URL
- http://spp.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/03/09/1948550615576211.full.pdf+html opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
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- Baryla-Wojciszke-Cichocka-2015-PSPS.pdf
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- Social-Psychological-and-Personality-Science-2015-Baryla.pdf
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- Wojciszke,2015,legit_oświadczenie.pdf
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- Score (nominal)
- 35
- Publication indicators
- : 2015 = 1.470; : 2015 = 2.325 (2) - 2015=3.005 (5); = 15
- Citation count
- 15
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- http://192.168.13.97/info/article/IMPORT-ARTICLE-00017754/
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