{"id":3436,"date":"2018-06-13T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T15:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2022-09-02T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:38:08","slug":"social-dominance-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Dominance Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Social Dominance Theory&url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Digg\" class=\"s3-digg hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/&title=Social Dominance Theory\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Reddit\" class=\"s3-reddit hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/&title=Social Dominance Theory\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to StumbleUpon\" class=\"s3-stumbleupon hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.respectu.com%2Fhome%2Fsocial-dominance-theory%2F&name=Social+Dominance+Theory\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Tumblr\" class=\"s3-tumblr hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Social%20Dominance%20Theory&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/social-dominance-theory\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div><div id=\"attachment_3438\" style=\"width: 879px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3438\" class=\"wp-image-3438 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/social-dominance-theory-respectu-dr-joel-haber.jpg\" alt=\"social dominance theory dr joel haber\" width=\"869\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/social-dominance-theory-respectu-dr-joel-haber.jpg 869w, https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/social-dominance-theory-respectu-dr-joel-haber-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.respectu.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/social-dominance-theory-respectu-dr-joel-haber-768x487.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;\">Copyright: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.123rf.com\/profile_lorenchik\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;\">Larisa Rudenko \/ 123RF Stock Photo<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to Social Dominance Theory, there is a hierarchy in all group situations. Someone&#8217;s always going to be at the top of the ladder and someone&#8217;s always going to be on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Now, of course, no one wants to be the one on the bottom\u2014therefore, they want someone <i>else <\/i>to be on the bottom. This is part of what explains the &#8220;do-nothing&#8221; bystanders and even those who participate in bullying despite their consciences. As long as people continue to shun someone else, they&#8217;re safe from being the biggest loser in school\u2014a title no one wants to claim. 0.60<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">A man named Daniel says that his son, a second grader at the <span class=\"s2\">time, had become a target of the class bully, a boy who&#8217;d been left <\/span>back about three times and was a lot bigger than <span class=\"s3\">his<\/span> classmates. Daniel told his son to ignore the kid. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t work for him, but a week or so later, while sitting at the dinner table, my son proudly announced that he&#8217;d been able to figure out how to handle Henry: <span class=\"s2\">&#8216;I told Henry that if he would stop beating on me, I would help him <\/span>beat up the other kids!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">&#8220;Needless to say, we quickly informed him this wasn&#8217;t an option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Daniel&#8217;s son was able to talk his way out of it and even reason with the bully that he should probably quit it now before he got to high school and wasn&#8217;t the biggest kid in school anymore and lines of people were waiting to pound on him. But you can see the logic in his initial thought\u2014out of self-preservation, he was willing to help the bully terrorize someone else to get himself out of trouble!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">Standing up for someone who&#8217;s on the bottom carries a big risk. It means that you could take that person&#8217;s place. You could look like a fool, could be laughed at and picked on and isolated. It takes a person with fairly high social standing to intervene and stop bullying alone. But if a group of kids take a stand, the bully is less\u00a0likely to continue. It&#8217;s much less appealing to pick on a target who has a buffer of friends or allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Social Dominance Theory, there is a hierarchy in all group situations. Someone&#8217;s always going to be at the top of the ladder and someone&#8217;s always going to be on the bottom. Now, of course, no one wants to be the one on the bottom\u2014therefore, they want someone else to be on the bottom. 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