Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1. A New “Discourse of Voluntary Servitude” 1
5. 2. What Is Social Justice? 13
6. 3. Intellectual Precursors, Major Postulates, and Practical Relevance of System Justification Theory 49
7. 4. Stereotyping and the Production of False Consciousness 70
8. 5. The Psychology of System Justification: Eighteen Hypotheses about Rationalization of the Status Quo, Internalization of Inferiority, and Potential Conflicts among Self, Group, and System Justification Motives 95
9. 6. Does a Sense of Powerlessness Foster the Legitimation of Authority and Hierarchy? 139
10. 7. “Poor but Happy”: The System-Justifying Potential of Complementary Stereotypes 153
11. 8. The Subjugation and Self-Subjugation of Girls and Women 177
12. 9. Belief in a Just God (and a Just Society): Religion as a Form of System Justification 201
13. 10. Overcoming Resistance to Change and Motivated Skepticism about Climate Change 233
14. 11. Why Men and Women Do and Don’t Rebel 249
15. 12. System Justification Theory Twenty-Five Years Later: Criticisms, Rebuttals, and Future Directions 275
16. Appendix A 307
17. Appendix B 329
18. Notes 335
19. References 339
20. Acknowledgments 369
21. Index 377