title: Beyond prejudice: relational inequality, collective action, and social change revisited.
abstract: This response clarifies, qualifies, and develops our critique of the limits of intergroup liking as a means of challenging intergroup inequality. It does not dispute that dominant groups may espouse negative attitudes towards subordinate groups. Nor does it dispute that prejudice reduction can be an effective way of tackling resulting forms of intergroup hostility. What it does dispute is the assumption that getting dominant group members and subordinate group members to like each other more is the best way of improving intergroup relations that are characterized by relatively stable, institutionally embedded, relations of inequality. In other words, the main target of our critique is the model of change that underlies prejudice reduction interventions and the mainstream concept of “prejudice” on which they are based.
authors: Department of Psychology, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. john.dixon@open.ac.uk
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Dixon
authors: Mark
authors: M
authors: Levine
authors: Steve
authors: S
authors: Reicher
authors: Kevin
authors: K
authors: Durrheim
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification