Group-based inequality attitudes vary across personality, sex, and institutional types.

Evidence

Social dominance theory is even more ambitious in embedding its explanations across multiple levels of analysis, including personality differences with regard to attitudes toward group-based inequality (or “social dominance orientation”), dispositional differences between males and females, and the dynamics of “hierarchyenhancing” versus “hierarchy-attenuating” social institutions (see Reading 18). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 141

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces social dominance orientation and the hierarchy-enhancing versus hierarchy-attenuating institution distinction.
• XREF: connects to: Emotion work demands vary by group and setting rather than being uniform. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 88