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Social dominance orientation, economic system justification and the belief in a just world as predictors of hostile attitudes towards poverty and the poor in Brazil
| Resumo: | In a context of huge inequality and of social class division, the Brazilian society is the object of this study, more specifically, its middle class and its attitude of hostility concerning class subjects and poverty. In this sense, we studied which variables could predict hostility in the Brazilian middle class towards the poor and poverty. Besides the control variables (age, sex/ gender, subjective social class, BJW-P, political orientation and social desirability), we measured the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), which is the tendency people have to endorse hierarchical structures, the Economic System Justification (ESJ), which is the tendency people have to justify the economic system, and the General Belief in a Just World (BJW-G), which is the tendency people have in behave like the world were a fair place. The participants (N=290) answered a questionnaire on Qualtrics, where those variables were tested. According to what was expected, the addition of the SDO, the ESJ and the BJW-G contributed to the prediction of hostility in this sample. It was also noticed that the Political Orientation showed a strong correlation with the manifestation of hostile attitudes. In the end of this work, some limitations are discussed, as the fact that we did not use a objective social class measure, and also some suggestions for future studies, like also interviewing the poorer classes. |
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| Autores principais: | Monteiro, Larissa de Oliveira Vanzellotti |
| Assunto: | Brazil Hostility Poverty Belief in a just world Social dominance orientation Economic system justification Pobreza Classe social -- Social class Crença -- Belief Valores sociais Relações intergrupais Brasil |
| Ano: | 2018 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | ISCTE |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório ISCTE |
| Resumo: | In a context of huge inequality and of social class division, the Brazilian society is the object of this study, more specifically, its middle class and its attitude of hostility concerning class subjects and poverty. In this sense, we studied which variables could predict hostility in the Brazilian middle class towards the poor and poverty. Besides the control variables (age, sex/ gender, subjective social class, BJW-P, political orientation and social desirability), we measured the Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), which is the tendency people have to endorse hierarchical structures, the Economic System Justification (ESJ), which is the tendency people have to justify the economic system, and the General Belief in a Just World (BJW-G), which is the tendency people have in behave like the world were a fair place. The participants (N=290) answered a questionnaire on Qualtrics, where those variables were tested. According to what was expected, the addition of the SDO, the ESJ and the BJW-G contributed to the prediction of hostility in this sample. It was also noticed that the Political Orientation showed a strong correlation with the manifestation of hostile attitudes. In the end of this work, some limitations are discussed, as the fact that we did not use a objective social class measure, and also some suggestions for future studies, like also interviewing the poorer classes. |
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