Rupert Brown

Prejudice (eBook, PDF)

Its Social Psychology

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444324600
• Artikelnr.: 38309101

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Preface.
Acknowledgements.
List of Figures.
1. The Nature of Prejudice.
2. Prejudiced Individuals.
3. Social Categorization and Prejudice.
4. Stereotyping and Prejudice.
5. The Development of Prejudice in Children.
6. Prejudice and Intergroup Relations.
7. Prejudice Old and New.
8. Prejudice from the Recipients' Point of View.
9. Reducing Prejudice.
Glossary of Key Terms.
References.
Subject Index.
Author Index.

Rezensionen

"This top-notch, readable authority on modern prejudices explainshow groups target people as interchangeable category members,through a socially shared lens shaped by conflict and power. Brownexpertly confronts today's multi-cultural challenges."
-Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University

"In the 15 years since the publication of the first edition ofthis book, there have been many exciting advances in the study ofprejudice. Rupert Brown's well-written second edition ofPrejudice expands his earlier volume with a straightforwarddescription of these new advances. This welcome addition to theshelf of social psychological books is now the definitive text ofchoice on the subject. Moreover, with its 800+ item bibliographyand new theoretical ideas, it can also be highly recommended forthe specialist."
-Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, SantaCruz

"Brown's original book, Prejudice, became theauthoritative standard text in its field. Fifteen years on and thatfield has expanded massively yet this new edition remains asuperbly written, comprehensive, excellently organised andthoroughly absorbing survey of the social psychology of Prejudice.It has been worth waiting for."
-Dominic Abrams, University of Kent