Recategorization: An Approach to Extending the Symbolic Benefits of Bureaucratic Representation to the Majority Group

Inkyu Kang, Cheon Lee
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Research has argued that the symbolic benefits of bureaucratic representation for marginalized social groups may come at the expense of the attitudes of the majority group. In this study, we investigate whether recategorization—that is, reframing previously separate groups as an inclusive common ingroup—can shift the majority group's perception of bureaucratic representation from a threat to a benefit. We conducted two vignette experiments with a representative sample of U.S. adults ( n = 1,040), in which we tested the same treatments in two policy domains: policing and healthcare. The results support our main hypothesis in the policing context. The effect of police chiefs’ race being African American on white respondents’ trust in the chief shifted from negative to positive when the chiefs portrayed African Americans discriminated by the police as members of American community, a superordinate common ingroup that encompasses every race, rather than simply as African Americans.
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重新分类:一种将官僚代表的象征性利益扩展到多数群体的方法
研究认为,官僚代表对边缘社会群体的象征性好处可能是以牺牲多数群体的态度为代价的。在本研究中,我们调查了重新分类——即将以前分离的群体重新构建为一个包容性的共同内部群体——是否可以将多数群体对官僚代表的看法从威胁转变为利益。我们对美国成年人的代表性样本(n = 1,040)进行了两个小插曲实验,在两个政策领域:警务和医疗保健中测试了相同的治疗方法。结果支持了我们在警务背景下的主要假设。当警察局长将受到警察歧视的非裔美国人描述为美国社区的成员,而不是简单地描述为非洲裔美国人时,非裔美国人种族对白人受访者对局长的信任的影响从负面转变为正面。
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