Killen / Rutland Children and Social Exclusion

Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9630-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Understanding Children's Worlds

Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and GroupIdentity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence ofmorality to explain why children include some and exclude others.
* Formulates an original theory about children'sexperiences with exclusion and how they understand the world ofdiscrimination based on group membership
* Brings together Social Domain Theory and Social IdentityTheory to explain how children view exclusion that often results inprejudice, and inclusion that reflects social justice andmorality
* Presents new research data consisting of in-depth interviewsfrom childhood to late adolescence, observational findings withpeer groups, and experimental paradigms that test how childrenunderstand group dynamics and social norms, and show either groupbias or morality
* Illustrates data with direct quotes from children along withdiagrams depicting their social understanding
* Presents new insights about the origins of prejudice and groupbias, as well as morality and fairness, drawn from extensiveoriginal data

Autoren/Hrsg.

Killen, Melanie

Rutland, Adam

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface.
Preface.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Exclusion and Inclusion in Children's Lives.
Chapter 2: Emergence of Morality and Inclusion.
Chapter 3: Emergence of Categorization and Prejudice.
Chapter 4: Development of Group Identity and Prejudice.
Chapter 5: What we know about Peer Relations, Group Identity, and Exclusion.
Chapter 6: Intragroup and Intergroup Exclusion: An In-depth Study.
Chapter 7: Peer Exclusion and Group Identity Around the World: The Role of Culture.
Chapter 8: Interventions for Promoting Morality and Positive Intergroup Attitudes.
Chapter 9: Integration of Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity: A New Perspective.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Melanie Killen is Professor of Human Development,Professor of Psychology (Affiliate), and Associate Director for theCenter for Children, Relationships, and Culture at the Universityof Maryland. She is a Fellow of both the American PsychologicalAssociation and the Association for Psychological Science. She isalso a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award by theProvost from the University of Maryland. Her book with Dan Hart,Morality in Everyday Life: Developmental Perspectives (1995),received the outstanding book award from AERA, and her book withSheri Levy, Intergroup
Attitudes and Relations from Childhood to Adulthood, received anHonorable Mention for the Otto Klineberg Memorial Prize from SPSSI.Her research examines the development of morality, intergroupattitudes, exclusion and inclusion, peer relationships, prejudice,culture, and how social experience is
related to social-cognitive development.
Adam Rutland is Professor of Developmental Psychology atthe Child Development Unit and Centre for the Study of GroupProcesses in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent.Previously he has been a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow atthe University of Surrey and been a member of Faculty at theUniversity of Aberdeen. His research examines the development ofchildren's prejudice and social identities. He has conductedrecent research into when and how children learn to self-presenttheir explicit attitudes; how intergroup contact can reducechildren's prejudice; children's exclusion of peerswithin groups and acculturation amongst ethnic minoritychildren.