Modern prejudice scales measure resistance to group role change, not simple antipathy.

Evidence

This insight that prejudice becomes a social problem in the context of group members’ attempts to change their social roles is consistent with the specific content of instruments designed to assess modern prejudices. Typical items assess resistance to change. Consider the Modern Racism Scale item, “Blacks are getting too demanding in their push for equal rights” (McConahay et al., 1981, p. 568). Similarly, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), is built around the principle of resistance to change in women’s roles. This instrument’s negative dimension (hostile sexism) assesses unfavorable reactions to women in nontraditional roles, and its positive dimension (benevolent sexism) assesses favorable reactions to women in traditional roles. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 211

This insight that prejudice becomes a social problem in the context of group members’ attempts to change their social roles is consistent with the specific content of instruments designed to assess modern prejudices. Typical items assess resistance to change. Consider the Modern Racism Scale item, “Blacks are getting too demanding in their push for equal rights” (McConahay et al., 1981, p. 568). Similarly, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), is built around the principle of resistance to change in women’s roles. This instrument’s negative dimension (hostile sexism) assesses unfavorable reactions to women in nontraditional roles, and its positive dimension (benevolent sexism) assesses favorable reactions to women in traditional roles. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 211

This insight that prejudice becomes a social problem in the context of group members’ attempts to change their social roles is consistent with the specific content of instruments designed to assess modern prejudices. Typical items assess resistance to change. Consider the Modern Racism Scale item, “Blacks are getting too demanding in their push for equal rights” (McConahay et al., 1981, p. 568). Similarly, the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (Glick & Fiske, 1996), is built around the principle of resistance to change in women’s roles. This instrument’s negative dimension (hostile sexism) assesses unfavorable reactions to women in nontraditional roles, and its positive dimension (benevolent sexism) assesses favorable reactions to women in traditional roles. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 211

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the contrast between hostile sexism (rejection of nontraditional roles) and benevolent sexism (approval of traditional roles) as two faces of resistance to change.
• XREF: Shows how the role-incongruity framework operationalizes modern prejudice — connects to vault claims on Islamophobia as resistance to Muslims’ role shifts.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 211; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 211