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The ontogenesis of social dominance: A strategy-based evolutionary perspective (1999)
| Venue: | Bullying: Perceptions of adolescent victims in the midwestern USA. School Psychology International |
| Citations: | 67 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Hawley99theontogenesis,
author = {Patricia H. Hawley},
title = {The ontogenesis of social dominance: A strategy-based evolutionary perspective},
booktitle = {Bullying: Perceptions of adolescent victims in the midwestern USA. School Psychology International},
year = {1999},
pages = {97--132}
}
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Abstract
Social dominance results when members of a social group vary in their ability to acquire resources in the presence of others (i.e., compete). Traditional approaches to social dominance often emphasize coercive behavior, but nonetheless suggest that dominant individuals are socially central (e.g., watched, attractive social part-ners). These patterns, however, apply to humans only up to a certain age. This apparent discontinuity may give the false impression that social dominance is less relevant to human social organization than it is to animal social organization. This paper reintroduces the ethological concept of social dominance, but reinterprets it from a strategy-based perspective. That is, if social dominance is defined as differen-tial ability to control resources—without reference to how this is done—then chil-dren evidently employ different strategies to compete with peers (e.g., coercive and prosocial). Furthermore, the type of strategy children employ and peers ’ responses to it depend largely on the ages of the children. By adopting a strategy-based ap-proach to social dominance and explicitly incorporating developmental processes and uniquely human capacities, human social dominance patterns appear to be more
Keyphrases
social dominance strategy-based evolutionary perspective different strategy apparent discontinuity social dominance result attractive social part-ners coercive behavior false impression ethological concept developmental process human social organization human capacity differen-tial ability human social dominance pattern social group certain age strategy-based perspective peer response strategy-based ap-proach strategy child employ social organization traditional approach dominant individual
