Understanding Prejudice, Racism, and Social Conflict

Martha Augoustinos, Katherine Jane Reynolds, Martha Augoustinos, Katherine Jane Reynolds

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780761962083, 9780761962076
• eBook ISBN: 9781412931366
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Psychology
• Index: Psychology

`This book stands out for a number of reasons...the result is an authoritative, provocative and challenging collection, which will doubtless help to stimulate further debate in the field? Susan Condor, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University

`The authors are to be commended for assembling an unusually stimulating collection of chapters...the book is clearly distinguished by the breadth of its coverage and the theoretical insights it offers. It is a valuable addition to any collection on this topic? Jack Dovidio, Department of Psychology, Colgate University

`This is a comprehensive text that is extremely well written by top social psychologists, with all of the major theoretical perspectives represented. The editors should be commended for putting together this lively and engaging text? Nyla Branscombe, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas

A range of international events have recently focused attention on issues of prejudice, racism and social conflict: increasing tensions in former Eastern bloc countries, political conflict in Northern Ireland and the United States, as well as racial conflict in the Baltic States, Middle East, Africa, and Australasia. In light of these events, Understanding Prejudice, Racism and Social Conflict presents a timely and important update to the literature, and makes a fascinating textbook for all students who need to study the subject.

A variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches are necessary to fully understand the themes of prejudice and racism. This textbook successfully presents these, uniquely, by examining how these themes manifest themselves at different levels - at the individual, interpersonal, intergroup and institutional levels. It aims to integrate the different approaches to understanding racism and prejudice and to suggest new ways to study these complex issues. This integrated, international focus should make it key reading for students in many countries.

With contributions from world-leading figures, Understanding Prejudice, Racism and Social Conflict should prove to be an invaluable teaching resource, and an accessible volume for students in social psychology, as well as some neighbouring disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Contributors
• Part I: Prejudice and Racism: Defining the Problem, 'Knowing' the Experience
• Chapter 1 - Prejudice, Racism, and Social Psychology
• Chapter 2 - The Changing Nature of Racism: From Old to New?
• Chapter 3 - Boongs, Bigots, and Bystanders: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Experiences of Racism and Prejudice and their Implications for Psychology in Australia
• Part II: Development, Socialization, and Personality
• Chapter 4 - The Development of Prejudice in Children
• Chapter 5 - The Socialization tolerance
• Chapter 6 - Prejudice and Personality: The Case of the Authoritarian and Social Dominator
• Part III: Social Cognition, Mood, and Attitudes
• Chapter 7 - Stereotyping and Prejudice: A Social Cognitive Approach
• Chapter 8 - Affect, Prejudice, and Discrimination: In the Politics of 'Gut Feeling', Feeling Better is What Counts
• Chapter 9 - Prejudiced Attitudes, Group Norms, and Discriminatory Behaviour
• Part IV: Prejudice and Group Life
• Chapter 10 - Prejudice as a Group Process: The Role of Social Identity
• Chapter 11 - Distortion V. Meaning: Categorization on Trial for Inciting Intergroup Hatred
• Chapter 12 - Realistic Intergroup Conflict: Prejudice, Power, and Protest
• Part V: The Language and Rhetoric of Racism
• Chapter 13 - The Language of Prejudice and Racism
• Chapter 14 - 'How to do X without Doing Y': Accomplishing Discrimination without 'Being Racist' - 'Doing Equity'
• Part VI: Future Directions
• Chapter 15 - Reducing Prejudice: An Historical and Multi-Level Approach
• Chapter 16 - Studying Psychology Studying Racism
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index