TY - JOUR
AU1 - Sidanius, Jim
AU2 - van Laar, Colette
AU3 - Levin, Shana
AU4 - Sinclair, Stacey
AB - 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.
TI - Social Hierarchy Maintenance and Assortment into Social Roles: A Social                Dominance Perspective
JF - Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
DO - 10.1177/13684302030064002
DA - 2003-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/social-hierarchy-maintenance-and-assortment-into-social-roles-a-social-fdMmwaLymx
SP - 333
EP - 352
VL - 6
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -