Workers concede innate differences justify their lower occupational position

Evidence

I believe anybody that has the potential to become a scientific man, or a professor, or a lawyer, or a doctor, should have the opportunity to pursue it, but there’s a lot of us that are just made to run a machine in a factory. No matter what opportunities some of us might have had, we would never have reached the point where we could become people of that kind. I mean everybody isn’t Joe DiMaggio. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2200

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schooling can breed workers unwilling to accept workplace subordination