Exploration of anomie-driven prejudices
New article written by Andreas Hovermann (LCSR associate researcher) and his colleagues titled “Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups: Elaborating a theoretical approach on anomie-driven prejudices“ was published in Acta Sociologica journal.
New article written by Andreas Hovermann (LCSR associate researcher) and his colleagues Steven Messner (University at Albany, SUNY, USA), Andreas Zick (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Germany) was published in Acta Sociologica journal. The article is titled “Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups: Elaborating a theoretical approach on anomie-driven prejudices“.
The paper discusses systematically different concepts of anomie as an explanation of Group-focused Enmity (GFE) against selected groups in society. The GFE research programme has demonstrated the utility of applying the concept of ‘anomia’ – an individual reaction to disruptions in the normative order – to explain prejudices against vulnerable groups. The authors extended the GFE research programme by incorporating insights from Institutional Anomie Theory, a theoretical perspective originally introduced in the criminological literature. Using the data from a representative survey of the German population (n = 840) Structural Equation Modelling the authors supported most of the main hypotheses, revealing the additional value for prejudice research of measuring the individual experience of anomie not only as anomia but also with respect to processes of marketization.
An article can be found via the link below: