Prejudice
Its Social Psychology
2nd Edition
Published on 22. June 2010
368 pages
978-1-4443-2460-0 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensivetreatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideasas well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.
* Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individualbehavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes
* Covers the major research, including classical personalityaccounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive researchfocussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as anintergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice
* Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds ofprejudice drawn from everyday life
* Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim'sperspective
* Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions ofexplicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice
Reviews / Votes
"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". (Bulletin, 13 January 2011)"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 KentMore details
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Person
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).
Content
Preface.
Chapter 1: The Nature of Prejudice.
Chapter 2: Prejudiced Individuals.
Chapter 3: Social Categorization and Prejudice.
Chapter 4: Stereotyping and Prejudice.
Chapter 5: The Development of Prejudice in Children.
Chapter 6: Prejudice and Intergroup Relations.
Chapter 7: Prejudice Old and New.
Chapter 8: Prejudice from the recipients' point of view.
Chapter 9: Reducing Prejudice.
References.
