Prejudice reduction and collective action: A conflict or confluence of interests?
Author(s) / Creator(s)
Mazur, Lucas B.
Abstract / Description
There is a growing body of research findings suggesting that prejudice reduction strategies can have unintended negative consequences, particularly by helping to stabilize systems of inequality. In light of these findings, a handful of scholars have suggested that the field be guided less by the prejudice reduction tradition, so as to focus more on collective action. While agreeing with the recent critiques of prejudice reduction, I argue that in more robustly embracing a collective action approach we should be careful not to abandon the notion of perceptualism that colored original thinking on prejudice reduction, lest we artificially narrow the scope of social psychological research and unintentionally ignore communities that do not fit well within current thinking in the collective action tradition.
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social change prejudice ironic effects sedative effects collective action perceptualismPersistent Identifier
Date of first publication
2015-12-11
Journal title
Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Volume
3
Issue
2
Page numbers
291–309
Publisher
PsychOpen GOLD
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peerReviewed
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Mazur, L. B. (2015). Prejudice reduction and collective action: A conflict or confluence of interests? Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(2), 291–309. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.324
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Author(s) / Creator(s)Mazur, Lucas B.
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Date of first publication2015-12-11
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Abstract / DescriptionThere is a growing body of research findings suggesting that prejudice reduction strategies can have unintended negative consequences, particularly by helping to stabilize systems of inequality. In light of these findings, a handful of scholars have suggested that the field be guided less by the prejudice reduction tradition, so as to focus more on collective action. While agreeing with the recent critiques of prejudice reduction, I argue that in more robustly embracing a collective action approach we should be careful not to abandon the notion of perceptualism that colored original thinking on prejudice reduction, lest we artificially narrow the scope of social psychological research and unintentionally ignore communities that do not fit well within current thinking in the collective action tradition.en_US
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Publication statuspublishedVersion
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Review statuspeerReviewed
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CitationMazur, L. B. (2015). Prejudice reduction and collective action: A conflict or confluence of interests? Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 3(2), 291–309. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.324en_US
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ISSN2195-3325
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Persistent Identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12034/1376
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Persistent Identifierhttps://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.1674
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Language of contenteng
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PublisherPsychOpen GOLD
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Is version ofhttps://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v3i2.324
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Keyword(s)social changeen_US
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Keyword(s)prejudiceen_US
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Keyword(s)ironic effectsen_US
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Keyword(s)sedative effectsen_US
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Keyword(s)collective actionen_US
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Keyword(s)perceptualismen_US
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Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)150
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TitlePrejudice reduction and collective action: A conflict or confluence of interests?en_US
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DRO typearticle
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Issue2
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Journal titleJournal of Social and Political Psychology
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Page numbers291–309
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Volume3
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