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Minorities: Minorities refer to groups within a society that hold a smaller portion of power, privilege, or representation compared to the dominant or majority population. This distinction can be based on factors such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status. See also Majority, Society, Politics, Community, Democracy, Power.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Serge Moscovici on Minorities - Dictionary of Arguments

Haslam I 94
Minorities/Moscovici: the views of minorities [or Individuals like Freud and Galileo] clearly changed the ways that the majority thought and acted. How can we explain minority influence? (…) the social approval and social consensus accounts that are used to explain majority influence are not very useful in this respect, because joining the minority puts people in a deviant group and at risk of losing social approval.
Solution/Moscovici: (Moscovici 1980)(1) minorities need to exert influence in different ways. Specifically, (…) they need to be consistent, confident, and committed in their judgments and, in this way, they encourage members of the majority to question their own views.
>Conversion theory/Moscovici.

1. Moscovici, S. (1980) ‘Towards a theory of conversion behavior’, in L. Berkowitz (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 13. London: Academic Press. pp. 209–39.

Robin Martin and Miles Hewstone, “Minority Influence. Revisiting Moscovici’s blue-green afterimage studies”, in: Joanne R. Smith and S. Alexander Haslam (eds.) 2017. Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies. London: Sage Publications


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Moscovici, Serge
Haslam I
S. Alexander Haslam
Joanne R. Smith
Social Psychology. Revisiting the Classic Studies London 2017


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