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Source Log, UNIV 200
Paul Anhalt
Spring 2017
MWF 9:00 am
Perturbing the status quo in constructivist
psychology
• Raskin, Jonathan D. (Ed); Bridges, Sara K. (Ed); Kahn, Jack S. (Ed).
(2015). Studies in meaning 5: Perturbing the status quo in
constructivist psychology , (pp. 3-27). New York, NY, US: Pace
University Press, xii, 354 pp.
• The chapter is not about the relationship between people and the
status quo. Rather, the author hypothesizes how the paths of a
certain idea may influence the status quo.
Change We Can Believe In: Using Perceptions of Changeability to Promote System-Change Motives Over System-Justification
Motives in Information Search
India R. Johnson at Elon University, Ph.D. in Social Psychology; Kentaro Fujita at OSU, Ph.D. in Psychology
A slight bias against the status quo exists in the language.
• This article provides an alternate view to the status quo. It suggests
that people change the status quo to help themselves occasionally.
• “People are motivated to defend and rationalize the status quo, a
phenomenon known as system justification” (133)
• “system-change motivation, which is concerned with bettering the
status quo over time” (133)
• This source allows me to argue that people will go out of their way
to maintain the status quo, but will reform to help themselves
sometimes.
Belief in a Just World, Perceived Fairness, and Justification of the Status Quo
Carolyn L. Hafer at Brock University, Ph.D. in Social Psychology; Becky L. Choma at Ryerson University, Ph.D. in Social Psychology
There is not much of a bias that I can find.
• The article says that people defend the status quo when they believe
more in a just world. Change is triggered by people believing the
world is currently unjust.
• “a disadvantaged individual or group acts to maintain the status quo,
even when the existing social system is not in their own best
interests.” (120)
• “A belief in a just world might ultimately increase the perceived
fairness of a given states of affairs.” (120)
• This source allows me to argue that people will try to support the
status quo until they believe it is unjust.