Prejudice

Its Social Psychology
2. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1307-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments. - Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes
- Covers the major research, including classical personality accounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive research focussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as an intergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice
- Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds of prejudice drawn from everyday life
- Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim's perspective
- Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions of explicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Rupert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Öffentliche Meinung und Umfragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface viii

Acknowledgements x

List of Figures xii

1 The Nature of Prejudice 1

2 Prejudiced Individuals 13

3 Social Categorization and Prejudice 35

4 Stereotyping and Prejudice 68

5 The Development of Prejudice in Children 108

6 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations 143

7 Prejudice Old and New 182

8 Prejudice from the Recipients’ Point of View 219

9 Reducing Prejudice 243

Glossary of Key Terms 281

References 290

Subject Index 339

Author Index 345

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).