- Title
- Relative deprivation and relative gratification as predictors of intergroup discrimination: can prejudice be reduced by equality?
- Creator
- Neuwenhuis, Bridgitte
- Subject
- Collective behavior
- Subject
- Social perception
- Subject
- Intergroup relations
- Subject
- Deprivation (Psychology)
- Date Issued
- 2009
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Soc Sc (Psych)
- Identifier
- vital:11608
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/147
- Identifier
- Collective behavior
- Identifier
- Social perception
- Identifier
- Intergroup relations
- Identifier
- Deprivation (Psychology)
- Description
- It has long been identified that relative deprivation increases prejudice. Guimond and Dambrun (2002) demonstrated that relative gratification, as the opposite of relative deprivation, is also an important variable in predicting intergroup discrimination. Guimond and Dambrun (2002), further suggest that in order to prevent destructive conflicts between groups, such as intergroup discrimination, the goal of equality rather than economic improvements has to be kept in mind. The present paper will report three experiments which aimed to replicate Guimond and Dambrun’s (2002) findings on relative deprivation and relative gratification and which further aimed to test their proposal that equality would reduce prejudice. The results of the three experiments confirmed the predicted effects of relative deprivation and relative gratification on intergroup discrimination. However, the results did not confirm that equality reduces prejudice. Methodological and theoretical reasons for these results are provided and discussed in detail.
- Format
- 73 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Social Sciences & Humanities
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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