PSYC 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cognitive Dissonance, Job Satisfaction, Balance Theory
28 Sep 2014
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Equity theory: reconciling affirmative action: when minority/disadvantaged groups in a society take action, there is persistent themes in their rhetoric justice in human relationships. Justice in interpersonal relationships have important implications for intergroup relations. Actually restoring equity, whereby inputs and outcomes of one/both parties in a relationship are changed so that ratios are made equal. They are more likely to cognitively distort relative inputs/outcomes. On the second day, a new pay structure (designed by experimenters to produce inequity) came out. None of the overpaid/equitably paid clerks left. Tougas and veilleux (1988) and veilleux and tougas (1989) differentiate between programs aiming to remove barriers to equal opportunity for women (soft) and those giving preferential treatment to women (hard) Young (1986) differentiates between nondiscrimination strategies in which decisions are based on individual merit (soft) versus restitutional and reverse discrimination strategies that give preferential treatment to disadvantaged group members (hard) Soft programs explicitly endorse the principles of individually based equity.
