Prejudice: Its Social Psychology, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-1-4051-1306-9
Hardcover
368 pages
August 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Provides a comprehensive treatment of the study of prejudice, introducing the main theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments and research in the field
- 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