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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

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