日時：2024年3月18日(月)10:00-11:30
場所：文学部E棟3階E304室
スピーカー：Professor Michael Hechter(School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University)
タイトル：Status Reversal and Its Discontents

概要:
The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialization, economic inequality, immigration, and the rising fortunes of ethnic, racial, religious, and gender and sexual minorities. These explanations for rising support for parties of the radical right and left posit a common underlying dynamic: namely, a reaction among relatively privileged individuals and groups to the fear – or the reality – of downward status reversal. The current study seeks to identify the causal impact of actual status loss on in-group bias, outgroup discrimination, and potential downstream political attitudes. Importantly, the experiments isolate the effect of status reversal from that of pre-existing beliefs about lower status outgroups that may confound the relationship. Results suggest that status reversal can affect a range of group-based attitudes but caution against attributing effects on outgroup discrimination and downstream political consequences to the loss of status alone.

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