When Inequality Fails: Power, Group Dominance, and Societal Change

Social dominance theory was developed to account for why societies producing surplus take and maintain the form of group-based dominance hierarchies, in which at least one socially-constructed group has more power than another, and in which men are more powerful than women and adults more powerful t...

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Main Authors: Felicia Pratto, Andrew L. Stewart, Fouad Bou Zeineddine
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2013-12-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/97