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1
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Define ‘social dominance orientation’.

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A person’s ideological attitude towards hierarchy whereby higher scores indicate agreement with the system and lower scores rejection.

2
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What does someone with a high SDO believe in?

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  • Inequality
  • Social hierarchy
  • The dominance of their own group
3
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What 5 factors affect the development of SDO?

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1) Group status in heirarchy
2) Social context affecting tendency for dominant groups to exhibit SDO
3) Having traits such as coldness, aggression, and vindictiveness
4) Being a male, rejecting policies that advocate change
5) Socialisation

4
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How can SDO be measured?

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  • Using a 7 point Likert scale
  • Involving 14-16 items
  • SDO-6 has reversed scoring for items 9 and 16 to reduce acquiescence bias
5
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How does having a high SDO change if a person identifies with subordinate groups?

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It translates to an acceptance of subordination in a social hierarchy.

6
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Give 3 examples of social institutions.

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1) Companies
2) Education
3) Religion

7
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Give an example of how someone with a high SDO would function in a social institution.

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A headteacher of a school distributing lower pay to their colleagues who are teachers that are seen as beneath them to maintain the divide.

8
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How does having a high SDO link to prejudice?

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They believe in stratification that leads to an inequality that may cause people to see others as inferior to them.

9
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Using the acronym ‘EACH’, evaluate 2 supporting ‘evidence’ points.

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P - Heaven’s (1999) research supports SDO leading to prejudice
E - They found that SDO was a strong predictor of negative attitudes towards women’s rights
E - This demonstrates how males who are in socially dominant positions prejudice women
P - Guimond and Damburn (2003) research supports SDO causing prejudice globally
E - They found that the maintenance of hierarchy is one of the most important goals for individuals in all societies and that SDO mediates the relationship between ingroup position and prejudice
E - Therefore demonstrating that a high SDO causes prejudice

10
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Using the acronym ‘EACH’, evaluate a rejecting ‘evidence’ point.

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P - Rubin and Hewstone’s (2004) reject SDO as an explanation for prejudice
E - They argue that social dominance theory has changed its definition along with how it is measured in changing the items many times to stay as one theory
E - Therefore suggest that the amount the theory has to changes reduces its credibility

11
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Using the acronym ‘EACH’, evaluate a ‘how’ point.

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P - Guimond and Damburn (2003) has low generalisability
E - Carried out their study in France with 90 psychology students from Blaise Pascal University
E - Using psychology students is a bias sample due to having shared interests and the sample is also ethnocentric as cannot generalise to non-European cultures and their attitudes towards hierarchy

12
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Are there any applications?

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P - Yes
E - It states that people with a high SDO score favour hierarchy and inequality in social institutions
E - Therefore from this we can understand the different processes involved in how this ideology rises to implement ways of reducing it to reduce prejudice

13
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Using the acronym ‘EACH’, evaluate 2 ‘credibility’ points.

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P - SDO-6 has low validity
E - They are a self-report 7-point Likert scale with only 2 reverse scored items
E - This may therefore be open to DCs
P - High reliability of data
E - They use a 7-point Likert scale with 14-16 closed questions providing quantitative data
E - This can be compared for consistency easily and is easy to replicate