A Novel Application of Institutional Anomie Theory
New article written by LCSR associate researches Andreas Hövermann, Eva Groß, and their colleagues titled "Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory" was published in Social Science Research journal.
New article written by LCSR associate researches Andreas Hövermann, Eva Groß, and their colleagues titled "Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory" was published in Social Science Research journal.
The authors explain how the prejudices about different social groups lead to the discrimination against the last and why modern social conflicts are governed by market-oriented value systems. The authors argue that Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT), a theory originally developed to explain crime rates, offers a fruitful macro-sociological framework for a better understanding of micro-social prejudices that emerge along with processes of marketization. They prove their assumption via the analysis of German survey data. The main suggestion of the article is that the extended IAT model can be usefully applied to explain how a marketized mentality is related to different forms of institutional integration, and how it is conducive to specific prejudices that emerge in market-dominated societies against purported economically burdening social groups.
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