Benevolent stereotyping is a more insidious control mechanism than overt hostility.
Evidence
Allport recognized that prejudice functioned to maintain the advantaged status of majority groups while rationalizing the exploitation of minority groups. However, he did not consider other, arguably more prevalent mechanisms of control, such as those involving protection and benevolence (e.g., paternalism; Jackman). … A focus on the relations between groups reveals evidence of seemingly “cooperative” behaviors of victimization by the targets of prejudice and of subtle “backlash” to even positive behaviors, if they deviate from the status quo (see Jackman, Rudman, and Eagly & Diekman). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 140 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Overt prejudice is easier to remedy than subtle bureaucratic bias. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy: Dilemmas of…, 796; Benevolent paternalism controls minorities more pervasively than open hostility does; Paternalistic control is a more prevalent prejudice mechanism than outright exclusion — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 140 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Protection and benevolence can control minority groups more than hostility
#corroborates(0.95) - Paternalistic control is a more prevalent prejudice mechanism than outright exclusion
#corroborates(0.93) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 140 - Benevolent paternalism operates as a subtle mechanism of prejudice that antipathy-based accounts miss
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