Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

Newman, Benjamin J.; Hartman, Todd K.; Taber, Charles S.

doi:10.1111/pops.12047

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“…Bilingual respondents were significantly more inclined to feel undecided with the statements about undocumented immigrants. This finding is consistent with finding of Newman et al (2014) that being able to speak another language increased the understanding of the beliefs, values, and norms of another culture, thus inducing a more positive attitude toward undocumented immigrants than those who do not speak another language. Based on construal level theory, the finding hinted that bilinguals were likely to adopt concrete low-level construals through rich, direct, detailed context when thinking about undocumented immigration issues, while non-bilinguals adopted high-level construals with general decontext mental presentations.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

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Communicating about Undocumented Immigration Issues: Is Your Target Audience Bilingual?

Qu¹,

Lamm²,

Rumble³

2017

Journal of Applied Communications

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Being able to speak another language may increase the understanding and receptivity to the beliefs, values, and norms of a different culture (Newman et al, 2014). Therefore, bilingualism becomes a valuable indicator to measure people's attitude toward undocumented immigrants and immigration issues (Newman, 2012).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating about Undocumented Immigration Issues: Is Your Target Audience Bilingual?

Qu¹,

Lamm²,

Rumble³

2017

Journal of Applied Communications

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“…Moreover, collective angst has been recently examined in numerous studies involving treatment of immigrants. Although beneficial in these respects, collective angst is conceptually similar to a number of other psychological constructs that have been well linked to social attitudes in both the social identity and social value orientation literatures (e.g., Gadarian & Albertson, 2013;Lucas et al, 2014;Newman, Hartman, & Taber, 2013;Sidanius & Pratto, 1999). Related, we specifically examined collective angst associated with perceived threat toward the future of the United States, but it is possible to consider threat toward the future existence of numerous other kinds of social groups, even among U.S. citizens (e.g., Craig & Richeson, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Distributive Justice for Others, Collective Angst, and Support for Exclusion of Immigrants

Lucas

Rudolph

Zhdanova

et al. 2014

Political Psychology

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Harsh treatment of others can reflect an underlying motivation to view the world as fair and just and also a dispositional tendency to believe in justice. However, there is a critical need to refine and expand existing knowledge, not only to identify underlying psychological processes but also to better understand how justice may be implicated in support for exclusionary policies. Across two studies, we show that support for policies that restrict immigrants is exclusively associated with thoughts about fair outcomes for other people (distributive justice for others). In Study 1, Americans' dispositional tendency to believe in distributive justice for others was associated with greater support for a policy proposing to further restrict immigrant job seekers' capacity to gain employment in the United States. In Study 2, we experimentally primed thoughts about justice in a sample of U.S. police officers. Support for a policy that mandated stricter policing of illegal immigration was strongest among officers who first thought about fair outcomes for other people, relative to other unique justice primes. Across both studies, distributive justice for others was associated with greater collective angst-perceived threat towards the future existence of Americans. Moreover, collective angst mediated the link between distributive justice for others and support for restrictive policies. Overall, this research suggests that thoughts about distributive justice for others can especially diminish compassion towards immigrants and other underprivileged groups via support for exclusionary policies. In addition, merely thinking about distributive justice for others may be sufficient to amplify social callousness.

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“…Social dominance orientation is based on SDT, which was developed by Jim Sidanius and Felicia Pratto in 1994. Social dominance orientation focuses on individual and structural factors that contribute to various forms of group-based oppression (Newman, Hartman, and Taber, 2014). It is a measure of someone's support for group-based hierarchies.…”

Section: Literature Review and Working Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring Impact of Social Dominance Orientation in Bangladeshi Manufacturing Industries

Islam

2020

BER

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We see signs of conflict, chaos, confusion, extortion, blockage and street violence in Bangladesh as a regular phenomenon. Often workers are found in the street creating unwanted activities to draw the attention of the Government. The problems of intergroup discrimination are responsible for social inequality. The worker group tries to dominate over the managerial group in most enterprises. In any organisation, psychopathic individual works alone but while expressing criminal activities or destructive activities, they function as a cooperative group. Regardless of the form of creation, or the contents of its fundamental belief system, workers group tend to organise as group-based social hierarchies in which they often dominate another group (managerial group) and enjoy higher social status and power.While scholars of developed nations have a greater interest in Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) study, little is known about least developed and developing nations. This quantitative cross-sectional study joins a serious of Social dominance orientation studies intending to explore the structure of the social dominance orientation scale in Bangladeshi manufacturing industries and if workers group has higher labels of social dominance orientation than managerial groups. The researcher found a significant difference between males and females on social dominance orientation at the workplace. Male showed a higher level of social dominance orientation than their female counterparts. Result also shows that members of disadvantaged groups (workers group) have high-level social dominance orientation. Workers group maintain oppression mainly by force and threat not by enjoying social supremacy but by strength and political orientation.

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Social Dominance and the Cultural Politics of Immigration

Cited by 23 publications

References 61 publications

Communicating about Undocumented Immigration Issues: Is Your Target Audience Bilingual?

Communicating about Undocumented Immigration Issues: Is Your Target Audience Bilingual?

Distributive Justice for Others, Collective Angst, and Support for Exclusion of Immigrants

Monitoring Impact of Social Dominance Orientation in Bangladeshi Manufacturing Industries

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