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Highlights

  • It is societal systems that turn human beings into people

  • Based on the criticism above, it is time to question where Social Dominance Theory (SDT) stands with regard to psychological research

  • When the arguments of SDT are followed, it becomes hard to think of the possibility that the tendency of human beings to form groupbased hierarchies will change some time

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Introduction

It is societal systems that turn human beings into people. Societal systems make up and define the ways people earn their livings, the traditions people practice in their daily lives, and the cultural values which construct the basis of many actions including scientific and artistic foundations. The constructors of Social Dominance Theory, Sidanius and Pratto (2001), begin their analysis with the basic observation that “[a]ll human societies tend to be structured as systems of group-based social hierarchies” Beginning with the basic observation, it is argued that human societies have the tendency to form not individual-based, but group-based social hierarchies.

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