Political and organizational factors rival hatred in explaining discrimination and violence

Evidence

At the same time, scattered research has accumulated that throws doubt on Allport’s paradigm and points to a more textured, political interpretation of intergroup attitudes, discrimination, and violence. Disparate scholars have directed attention to the importance of organizational and political factors, rather than animosity, for establishing and maintaining group status and advantage (see also Esses, Jackson, Dovidio, & Hodson, ch. 14 this volume). Other research has revealed a complexity to intergroup attitudes and discrimination that cannot be accommodated within Allport’s hostilitydriven paradigm. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 649

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the shift from a hatred-centered to a structural/political account of prejudice — how a field stopped asking about individual animus and started asking about who benefits from maintaining group hierarchy.