Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, University of Bielefeld, Universitaetsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany;2. Department of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA;3. LCSR, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation;1. Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;2. Carman and Ann Adams Department of Pediatrics, Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA;3. Guangxi Center for Diseases Control and Prevention, Nanning, Guangxi, China;4. Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA;1. Pew Research Center, United States;2. Göttingen University & Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany;1. University of Wuppertal, Department of Sociology, Gaussstrasse 20, 42119 Wuppertal, Germany;2. University of Bern, Institute of Sociology, Fabrikstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Prejudices legitimize the discrimination against groups by declaring them to be of unequal, especially of less, worth. This legitimizing power is highly relevant in social conflicts of modern societies that are governed by market-oriented value systems. However, prejudice research has yet to be linked to sociological discourses on the marketization of society. We argue that Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT), a theory originally developed to explain crime rates, offers a fruitful macro-sociological framework for a better understanding of micro-social prejudices that emerge along with processes of marketization. Extending IAT to explain prejudices in a German study based on survey data offers a first attempt to underpin our theoretical hypotheses with empirical data. Although the results need to be interpreted with due caution, they suggest that the extended IAT model can be usefully applied to explain how a marketized mentality is related to different forms of institutional integration, and how it is conducive to specific prejudices that emerge in market-dominated societies against purported economically burdening social groups. |
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| Keywords: | Prejudice Social institutions Marketization Institutional anomie |
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