Description

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

Author: Brown, Rupert

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1405113073
Language: English
Pages: 353