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Social Hierarchy Maintenance and Assortment into Social Roles: A Social Dominance Perspective

Jim Sidanius

University of California, Los Angelessidanius{at}psych.ucla.edu

Colette van Laar

Leiden University

Shana Levin

Claremont McKenna College

Stacey Sinclair

University of Virginia

Using vocational choice and social dominance theories as organizing frameworks, and employing data from a five-wave longitudinal study of undergraduates, we explored the relationship between generalized anti-egalitarianism, on the one hand, and the choice of hierarchy-enhancing (HE) and hierarchy-attenuating (HA) college majors and future careers on the other hand. Consistent with theoretical expectations, the data showed that students with high levels of anti-egalitarianism were more likely to choose HE college majors and future careers, while students with relatively low levels of generalized anti-egalitarianism were more likely to choose HA college majors and future careers. Congruent students (high antiegalitarianism/HE majors and low anti-egalitarianism/HA majors) enjoyed greater academic success, and greater expectations of academic success than incongruent students (high antiegalitarianism/HA majors and low anti-egalitarianism/HE majors). Finally, we explored three processes possibly responsible for the congruence between anti-egalitarianism and career path: (1) self-selection, (2) institutional socialization, and (3) differential success/differential attrition. The results only showed support for self-selection mechanisms.

Key Words: anti-egalitarianism • career–attitude congruence • political socialization

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 6, No. 4, 333-352 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/13684302030064002
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