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Social Dominance: An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

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In this paper, the authors present a theory of intergroup relations from visiousness to viciousness, and the psychology of group dominance, as well as the dynamics of the criminal justice system.
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Part I. From There to Here - Theoretical Background: 1. From visiousness to viciousness: theories of intergroup relations 2. Social dominance theory as a new synthesis Part II. Oppression and its Psycho-Ideological Elements: 3. The psychology of group dominance: social dominance orientation 4. Let's both agree that you're really stupid: the power of consensual ideology Part III. The Circle of Oppression - The Myriad Expressions of Institutional Discrimination: 5. You stay in your part of town and I'll stay in mine: discrimination in the housing and retail markets 6. They're just too lazy to work: discrimination in the labor market 7. They're just mentally and physically unfit: discrimination in education and health care 8. The more of 'them' in prison, the better: institutional terror, social control and the dynamics of the criminal justice system Part IV. Oppression as a Cooperative Game: 9. Social hierarchy and asymmetrical group behavior: social hierarchy and group difference in behavior 10. Sex and power: the intersecting political psychologies of patriarchy and empty-set hierarchy 11. Epilogue.

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Race politics : Australian government responses to asylum seekers and refugees from White Australia to Tampa

Dawn Bolger
TL;DR: It is suggested that within the context of a youth-services agency such as this, where children are involved in any kind of abuse, is a positive thing to do and should be promoted and encouraged.
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The Impact of Ingroup Favoritism on Trade Preferences

TL;DR: This article found that Americans value the well-being of other Americans more than that of people outside their own country, and this tendency is exacerbated by a sense of national superiority; Americans favor their national ingroup to a greater extent if they perceive Americans to be more deserving.
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Reverberations of the Holocaust fifty years later: Psychology's contributions to understanding persecution and genocide.

TL;DR: The Canadian Psychological Association celebrated its Sixtieth Anniversary convention in 1999 as discussed by the authors, and the focus of the ongoing joint CPA-APA Ethnopolitical Warfare Initiative was on psychological aspects of the Holocaust.
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The Dark Duo of Post-Colonial Ideology: A Model of Symbolic Exclusion and Historical Negation

TL;DR: The post-colonial ideology scale (PCIS-2D) as mentioned in this paper assesses two distinct "dark" ideologies: historical recognition versus negation (HRN) and symbolic projection versus exclusion (SPE).
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Adaptación de la escala de Orientación a la Dominancia Social al castellano: validación de la Dominancia Grupal y la Oposición a la Igualdad como factores subyacentes

TL;DR: This article validated the existence of a factorial escala de Orientacion a la Dominancia Social (SDO) in una muestra espanola, asi como comprobar que estructura factorial es mas adecuada.
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