Social Dominance Orientation Among Different Social Groups Leads to Cast Discrimination Attitude and Communal Violence in India (Breaking a vicious cycle through Ambedkar thoughts)

Authors: [1] Dr. Bharat A. Naik [2] Dr. Vikas S. Kamble

Pages: 77-80

Abstract:

This paper examines the social dominance perspective in the Indian context. Using social dominance theory (Sidanius & Pratto, 1999) as guiding theoretical frameworks, we tested three hypotheses within a sample of 106 college students from a region where to severe communal violence had taken place from last five years. In particular, we have hypothesized that social dominance orientation (SDO) and caste discrimination attitude (CDA) would both make high contributions in communal violence. After accepted this hypothesis, we further extended our study to investigate the influence of Ambedkar thoughts to marginalize the social dominance orientation and caste discrimination attitude. Aresult of this study shows that Ambedkar thoughts intervention is much useful to reduce the SDO, CDA and communal violence from society. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.