Kevin Durrheim, John Dixon

Racial Encounter

The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By examining the processes of intergroup contact which arose in South Africa following the removal of official ethnic divides, and supporting it with evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781138876897
• ISBN-10: 1138876895
• Artikelnr.: 42487997

Autorenporträt

Kevin Durrheim is Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa John Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Lancaster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. The Contact Hypothesis Reconsidered. The Contact
Hypothesis as a Framework for Understanding the Social Psychology of
Desegregation. Contact and the 'Ecology' of Everyday Relations. 'You Have
to be Scared when they're in their Masses': Working Models of Contact in
Ordinary Accounts of Interaction and Avoidance. Part II: Attitudes to
Desegregation Reconsidered. Attitudes Towards Desegregation as a Framework
for Understanding the Social Psychology of Desegregation. Evaluative
Practices: A Discursive Approach to Investigating Desegregation Attitudes.
Lay Ontologizing: Everyday Explanations of Segregation and Desegregation.
Group Differences in Narrating the 'Lived Experience' of Desegregation.
Part II: 'Locating' the Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation.
Dislocating Identity: Desegregation and the Transformation of Place.
Conclusions: 'Racial Preferences' and the Tenacity of Segregation.