TY - BOOK AU - Jost,John T. AU - Major,Brenda TI - The psychology of legitimacy: emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations SN - 0521786991 AV - HM 821 P974 2001 U1 - 394 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Classes sociales KW - Clases sociales KW - Racionalización KW - Stâerâeotypes KW - Relations intergroupes KW - Rationalisation (Psychologie) KW - Lâegitimitâe des gouvernements KW - Comportement organisationnel KW - Classe KW - Ideologie KW - Inegalite KW - Institution KW - Interaction KW - Intolerance KW - Jugement KW - Justice KW - Justification KW - Legitimation KW - Legitimite KW - Psychologie KW - Rationalisation KW - Relation KW - Social KW - Sociologie KW - Stereotype KW - Tolerance N1 - Comprend des bibliogr; Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors Part One. Introduction. 1 Emerging Perspectives on the Psychology of Legitimacy John T. Jost & Brenda Major 3 Part Two. Historical Perspectives on Sociological and Psychological Theories of Legitimacy 2 Theories of Legitimacy Morris Zelditch, Jr. 3 Reflections on Social and Psychological Processes of Legitimization and Delegitimization Herbert C. Kelman Part Three. Cognitive and Perceptual Processes in the Appraisal of Legitimacy 4 A Perceptual Theory of Legitimacy: Politics, Prejudice, Social Institutions, and Moral Value Christian S. Crandall & Ryan K. Beasley 5 Blame It on the Group: Entitativity, Subjective Essentialism, and Social Attribution Vincent Yzerbyt & Anouk Rogier 6 Status versus Quo: Naive Realism and the Search for Social Change and Perceived Legitimacy Robert J. Robinson & Laura Kray N2 - This book summarizes and integrates the best social scientific research currently T being conducted in a previously neglected but rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation and de-legitimation in social relations. Contributors are leading researchers in sociology, psychology, political sci ence, and organizational behavior, and the themes they cover are overlapping and mutually informative. The book is constructed primarily around the authors and their theories, and there is an uncommon degree of dialogue amongst the authors. The chapters converge on key questions concerning the was in which people construct ideological justifications or rationalizatzems for them non actions and for the actions of others taken on behalf of valued groups and systems. The rest is a general approach to the psychological basis of social inequality, which y be pred to distinctions of race, gender, social class, occupationalsts, and any other terms of inequality ER -