This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.
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"An ambitious collection...a masterly overview of the latest research on the psychological, sociological, and organizational development theories of legitimacy...will provide students of organizational studies with a valuable introduction to the psychology of legitimacy." Administrative Science Quarterly
"Compiles much of the best current research on legitimacy processes...An important book...Any researcher involved in the serious study of legitimacy processes and everyone who wants to better understand how legitimacy affects individual and collective behavior should read this book." Contemporary Sociology
"Introduces psychologists and social psychologists to exciting work in the area of legitimacy from the perspective of the individual." Social Justice Research
"Collects varied perspectives on the social-psychological processes, among both the advantaged and the disadvantaged, that shore up this wall around the status quo...Can be usefully applied in many contexts." Civil Rights Journal
"This is an important book. Any researcher involved in the serious study of legitimacy processes and everyone who wants to better understand how legitimacy affects individual and collective behavior should read this book." Contemporary Psychology
"This book is exhaustively researched and referenced and, as a whole, creates a substantial foundation for future research." Administrative Science Quarterly
"Compiles much of the best current research on legitimacy processes...An important book...Any researcher involved in the serious study of legitimacy processes and everyone who wants to better understand how legitimacy affects individual and collective behavior should read this book." Contemporary Sociology
"Introduces psychologists and social psychologists to exciting work in the area of legitimacy from the perspective of the individual." Social Justice Research
"Collects varied perspectives on the social-psychological processes, among both the advantaged and the disadvantaged, that shore up this wall around the status quo...Can be usefully applied in many contexts." Civil Rights Journal
"This is an important book. Any researcher involved in the serious study of legitimacy processes and everyone who wants to better understand how legitimacy affects individual and collective behavior should read this book." Contemporary Psychology
"This book is exhaustively researched and referenced and, as a whole, creates a substantial foundation for future research." Administrative Science Quarterly
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This book addresses how people think about inequalities of race, gender, class, status, and power, and it focuses on why social inequality is perceived as fair and legitimate. Work on stereotyping and internalization of inferiority helps to explain why the oppressed do not revolt. The book has important implications for leadership and politics and for understanding how businesses and governments maintain their legitimacy to customers and public audiences.
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This review is from: The Psychology of Legitimacy: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations (Paperback)
What makes something legitimate or not legitimate? Naturally the answer depends on where you live. What is legitimate in one country is often not in another. This, as well as many other issues, makes legitimacy a very difficult thing to define and to grasp. This book gives you an understaning of legitimacy and from a lot of angles. Leading researchers in sociology, psychology, political science, and organizational behavior, all contributed to this book and the themes they cover are overlapping and mutually informative. One of the great things about this book is that the authors of the various sections are not philosophers, they are researchers. This means here that their opinions are backed up with corresponding studies, not just endless theorizing. The book starts with a summary of what will follow, then a section on the historical perspectives on legitimacy. The historical section offers a brief overview of what the author considers to be the best books on the topic over hundreds of years. Lots of excellent condensed information. The book continues with sections on "Congnitive and perceptual processes in the appraisal of legitimacy", "The tolerance of injustice: implications for self and society", "Stereotyping, ideology, and the legitimation of inequality", and "institional and organizational processes of legitimation." There is really far too much to talk about, so I'll mention a couple of my favorite findings from the book. First, tokenism (allowing a small number of a discriminated against minority to move up in society) actually helps to keep the group that is discriminated against down. Why is this so? There are many issues, one is that the token identifies himself with the higher status group and no longer with the lower status group. That means he or she is more unlikely to care about the plite of his or her "former" discriminated against group. Another reason is that the existence of tokens actually makes legitimate the higher status of the upper group in the minds of both the favored and the discriminated against groups. One of the great things about this book is that this is not just theory, it is born out in scientific tests. Another point I found outstanding was: what is legitimate to most people? The answer is usually something is legitimate if people feel that it is right. For example, if a process is believed to be fair (or right), people will believe it is legitimate. There are many interesting reasons for this which the book talks about. "The Psychology of Legitimacy" contains fascinating insight, studies, and excellent theory all in one place. More importantly, it is about a topic so important and far reaching that it applies to literally everyone everywhere.
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expropriative relations, unforeseeable controversies, ambivalent prejudice, status construction theory, doubly dissimilar encounters, entitative groups, isotropic asymmetry, social dominance theorists, tokenism condition, delegitimization processes, system justification theory, paternalistic prejudice, devaluing domains, group attribution error, outgroup favoritism, advantaged group members, asymmetrical ingroup bias, quiz game paradigm, system justification perspective, ego justification, social dominance theory, system justification motives, low status group members, devalue domains, greater ingroup bias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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With this book, we are proud to present what we see as the best research currently being conducted in a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation in social relations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expropriative relations, unforeseeable controversies, ambivalent prejudice, status construction theory, doubly dissimilar encounters, entitative groups, isotropic asymmetry, social dominance theorists, tokenism condition, delegitimization processes, system justification theory, paternalistic prejudice, devaluing domains, group attribution error, outgroup favoritism, advantaged group members, asymmetrical ingroup bias, quiz game paradigm, system justification perspective, ego justification, social dominance theory, system justification motives, low status group members, devalue domains, greater ingroup bias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, British Journal of Social Psychology, Brenda Major, European Journal of Social Psychology, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, American Sociological Review, Journal of Social Issues, Psychological Review, European Review of Social Psychology, American Psychologist, New Haven, Russell Spears, Western Canon, Yale University Press, Bertjan Doosje, Jolanda Jetten, University of California Press, Los Angeles Times, Psychological Bulletin, The Ontario, Free Press, Sears Auto Centers, Southern Italians New!
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- Crimes of Obedience: Towards a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility by Herbert C. Kelman in Front Matter, and page 54
- The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides on page 34, and page 35
- Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 23 by Author Unknown on page 173, and page 386
- J. L. Austin (The Arguments of the Philosophers) by G. J. Warnock on page 52
- Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles on page 142
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- Legitimacy Processes in Organizations, Volume 22 (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) by Cathryn Johnson on page 24, and page 237
- Identity Issues in Groups (Research on Managing Groups and Teams, Volume 5) by J.T. Polzer on page 256, and page 303
- Heidegger's Religious Origins: Destruction and Authenticity (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) by Benjamin D. Crowe in Back Matter
- Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical Traditions by Kay Deaux in Back Matter
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