System justification theory

By John T. Jost, Rick Andrews. 2011

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Uncertainty and the Roots of Extremism (2013, background): “People can go to great lengths to support and justify the existing social structure, even if such behavior places themselves and their group in a relatively disadvantaged position—an idea explored by system justification theory (e.g., Jost & Hunyadi, 2002; Jost & Van der Toorn, 2011).”
White Male Power and Privilege: The Relationship Between White Supremacy and Social Class (2017, background): “With SJT, individuals are motivated to feel good about themselves and the group to which they belong and will imbue the system with similar positive characteristics (Jost & van der Toorn, 2012).”
The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century (2018, background): “…and, further, that larger or growing minority groups elicit feelings of threat in the dominant majority that often engender prejudice (Blalock, 1967; Blumer, 1958; for recent reviews of theories relevant to how increasing diversity may relate to threat, see Hogg, 2016; Jost & van der Toorn, 2012).”