Prejudice is best explained as rational resource expropriation by advantaged groups

Evidence

Building on those ideas, I assume that humans are rational, selfinterested, sociable actors who pursue strategies to maximize their control over resources (social, material, and political), subject to constraints (Jackman, 1994, 2001). Those who are resource-advantaged (e.g., with more material resources, superior technology, or greater physical strength) cooperate with those who are similarly endowed to establish and maintain stable institutions that expropriate social, material, and political resources from the vulnerable resource-disadvantaged who fall within their grasp. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 666

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the law-merchant and trust materials on rational actors optimizing under institutional constraints, plus Marxian class analysis. — connects to: Economic theories encode rival justifications for who should receive resources — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 121
• QUESTION: Contrast this structural-incentive model against Allport’s personality-level account — what empirical prediction distinguishes them?
• SEED: Angle: prejudice as rational extraction rather than irrational hatred — how re-framing dominant-group bias as self-interested expropriation changes policy remedies.
• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s core institutional-expiration frame up front.