Framing disparities as institutional products can short-circuit stereotype-based rationalization.

Evidence

One way to interrupt this vicious cycle and combat ideas that inequity is “natural” or “inevitable” is to highlight the power of institutions to create inequality. A focus on institutions may enable advocates for social change to draw the public’s attention away from individual and group-based stereotypical traits and toward an acknowledgment of the role structural bias plays in creating the disparities (Hetey & Eberhardt, 2018). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 415

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how the framing of social problems (individual traits vs. structural causes) determines whether evidence feeds or fights bias — with direct application to how journalists cover crime and poverty.