Brown Prejudice

Its Social Psychology
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-2460-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensivetreatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideasas well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.
* Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individualbehavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes
* Covers the major research, including classical personalityaccounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive researchfocussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as anintergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice
* Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds ofprejudice drawn from everyday life
* Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim'sperspective
* Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions ofexplicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Rupert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Chapter 1: The Nature of Prejudice.
Chapter 2: Prejudiced Individuals.
Chapter 3: Social Categorization and Prejudice.
Chapter 4: Stereotyping and Prejudice.
Chapter 5: The Development of Prejudice in Children.
Chapter 6: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations.
Chapter 7: Prejudice Old and New.
Chapter 8: Prejudice from the recipients' point of view.
Chapter 9: Reducing Prejudice.
References.

Über Autor(innen)

Rupert Brown is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. He has taught courses on prejudice, group processes, and intergroup relations for over 25 years, and published widely in these fields. His books include Group Processes (second edition, Blackwell, 2000) and, as co-editor, the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Relations (Blackwell, 2001) and Social Identities (2006).