Prejudice research abandoned unitary hostility for multifaceted political accounts

Evidence

An intense debate ensued about the meaning of these puzzling trends (e.g., Krysan, 2000), and scholars began to differentiate “old-fashioned racism” from various newly offered concepts that tinkered with – but did not abandon – Allport’s simple, unitary conception. Increasingly, prejudice was seen as something more subtle, more socially sensitive, and more multifaceted and complex (Devine, ch. 20 this volume; Gaertner & Dovidio, ch. 5 this volume). Individually generated hostility remained a key ingredient, but some scholars began to argue that prejudice was affected by political considerations, whether conservatism (e.g., Sniderman & Carmines, 1997), a sense of group threat (e.g., Bobo, 1999), racial resentment (Kinder & Sanders, 1996), social dominance orientation (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999), or group interests (e.g., Jackman & Muha, 1984). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 660

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts ‘old-fashioned racism’ with newer multidimensional concepts like racial resentment, group threat, and social dominance orientation.
• QUESTION: Worth probing how these political dimensions (conservatism, group threat, social dominance) relate to one another and whether they are mutually reducible.