Structural inequality does not inevitably produce group conflict

Evidence

Group conflict is not an inevitable outcome of structural inequality. For this reason, study of the social-psychological processes through which conflict emerges is needed. In particular, empirical study of the role of group conflict in racial attitudes and ideology requires a specification of the attitudinal forms that group conflict motives assume. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3360

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what intervening social-psychological mechanisms convert structural inequality into felt conflict, and when do they fail to do so?
• XREF: connects to: Internal work organization shapes income inequality independent of individual differences — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 877