Social dominance orientation, anti-egalitarianism and the political psychology of gender: an extension and cross-cultural replication

This study explored differences in levels of anti-egalitarianism I had social dominance orientation among groups with different social status, and examined the degree to which these differences in anti-egalitarianism varied across a number of situational and contextual factors. Consistent with both the cultural deterministic :(CD) and social dominance (SD) paradigms, when defining social status as. socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or 'race', differences in anti-egalitarianism between members of high- and low-status groups were found to be contingent upon a range of contextual and situational fact Or's, such as the degree to which the two groups: varied:in social status. However, consistent with the SD perspective and the invariance hypothesis, the data also,showed that males were more anti-egalitarian than females, and; that this male/female difference in social and group dominance orientation tended to be largely invariant across cultural, situational, and contextual boundaries., Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.