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Sociology

the claim that racial prejudice arises from a dominant group's felt claim to superior position and fear that a subordinate group threatens its prerogatives.

In sociology, group position theory refers to the claim that racial prejudice arises from a dominant group's felt claim to superior position and fear that a subordinate group threatens its prerogatives. This meaning comes from Blumer (1958) in The Pacific Sociological Review.[1]

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Blumer, H. (1958). Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position. The Pacific Sociological Review, 1(1), 3-7. https://doi.org/10.2307/1388607

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