Week 7: Maintenance of the Status Quo Flashcards
What is the status qou?
Is is the existing social structure, and is usually unequal and institutionalized, but is not considered static.
What is status threat?
Comes from high status individuals, in which they perceive that there could be possible change to the status quo.
What is the psychological signs of status threat?
You see an increase in blood pressure (physiological threat response) when a ‘higher status’ individual’s status is threatened to disappear or change.
What are three different causes of status threat?
- Threat to security and stability of status (economic change)
- Demographic decline
- Progress towards equality
What is relative deprivation vs relative gratification?
People believe they have less then others vs feeling they have more then others, or “better off”.
What does the Wealth Paradox tell us about intergroup bias between relative deprivation and gratification?
Both prosperity and deprivation can be associated with negative outgroup attitudes, creating a v-curve.
What are the 4 ways that social identity theorizing explain the wealth paradox for people with relative gratification?
- Higher-status groups want to maintain and protect their position.
- Group status is unstable, changing at any moment (e.g., the economic system)
- There is a sense of legitimacy/entitlement to what they have earnt.
- High degree of permeability (movement) between the rich and poor groups
What did Jetten, Mols, Healy, & Spears find in 2017 regarding fear of the future in low/moderate/high income participants when the economic market is unstable?
High and moderate income families were significantly worried about their future vitality in an unstable market, with high showing specific sensitivity to the economic market.
What does the “Fear of Falling” explain amongst the wealthy and status threat?
That status threat predicts collective angst and opposition to immigration.
In Outten et al. (2012) ‘Feelings threatened about the future’ what were the results concerning demographic decline as a threat between white Americans and white Canadians?
Americans AND Canadians felt more perceived threat, anger, and fear towards racial minorities and sympathy towards their ingroup
What did Craig & Richeson (2014) replication of demographic decline among majority and minority ethnicities find in regards to perceived threat?
Found effects on explicit & implicit racial attitudes, as well as negative attitudes toward various racial minority groups.
What are Status-legitimizing beliefs?
A set of beliefs that rationalizes and justifies social inequality through improving through hard work, because progress may be seen as threatening for those who believe in the legitimacy of the social structure.
What did Wilkins & Kaiser find in 2014 regarding racial progress and racism towards white people?
They found that high Status-Legitimizing Beliefs (SLB) was correlated with high anti white and perceived racial progress, while low SLB found lower levels of anti-white bias even though there is high racial progress.
What are the two main backlashes to the “me too” movement?
- An increase in women’s ‘voices’ contribute to a perceived bias against men
- Higher perceptions of men’s victimhood led to less willingness to work with women
- Higher perceptions of men’s victimhood led to more reluctance to fight against sexual misconduct.
What is zero sum thinking and it’s two main components?
The gains or progress for one group is seen as the loss for another group, driven by a resource stress and perceived group competition.
