Conflict, Cooperation, and Justice: Essays Inspired by the Work of Morton Deutsch

by Barbara Benedict Bunker, Jeffrey Z. Rubin

Overview

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Morton Deutsch, a pioneer in applied social psychology. The contributors—all authorities in their fields and former students or colleagues of Deutsch—include leading thinkers from schools and departments of sociology, psychology, education, and management, with expertise ranging from labor relations to school-based conflict resolution to cooperative education programs and business policy. Each chapter focuses on one of the three areas of Deutsch's work—conflict, cooperation, and justice—with a commentary by Deutsch himself concluding each section. This volume is both a tribute to the work of Deutsch and a cross-disciplinary contribution to theory and practice in conflict, cooperation, and justice—with applications that cut across business, community, political, and other social groups.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780787900694
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	06/16/1995
Series:	Conflict Resolution Series
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.41(h) x 1.37(d)

About the Author

BARBARA BENEDICT BUNKER is associate professor of psychology at the State University of New York at Buffalo and a consultant to business.

JEFFREY Z. RUBIN is professor of psychology at Tufts University, editor of Negotiation Journal, and former executive director of the Harvard Program on Negotiation.

Table of Contents

Part One: Conflict
1. Conflict Across Levels of Analysis: Bridges and Barriers(JeffreyZ. Rubin, George Levinger)
2. Conflict Formulation: The Cross Cultural Challenge(Guy OlivierFaure)
3. A Multimodal Approach to Seemingly Intractable Conflict(Dean G.Pruitt, Paul V. Olczak)
4. Conflict Resolution Training in the Schools: The Challenge andthe Promise(Ellen Raider)
Part Two: Cooperation
5. Trust in Relationships: A Model of Trust and Development andDecline(Roy J. Lewicki, Barbara Benedict Bunker)
6. Cooperation Within a Competitive Context: Lessons from WorkerCooperatives
7. Social Interdepandence in Education: Cooperative Learning(DavidW. Johnson, Roger T. Johnson)
Part Three: Justice
8. Three Faces of Social Justice(Rob Folger, Blair Sheppard, RobertButtram)
9. Dealing with Tradeoffs Among Justice Principles: TheMotivational Antecedents of Definitions of Fairness(Tom R. Tyler,Maura A. Belliveau)
10. Desperating Seeking (In)Justice(Michelle Fine, Mun Wong)
11. Drawing the Line: Social Categorization and SocialExclusion(Susan Opotow)
12. Discussion and Conclusions(Jeffrey Z. Rubin, Barbara BenedictBunker)

Editorial Reviews

Seventeen cross-disciplinary contributions focus on the groundbreaking work of social scientist Morton Deutsch. Topics, divided into the three title areas of Deutsch's work, include labor relations, school-based conflict resolution, business policy, dealing with intractable conflict, and using appropriate combinations of distributive and procedural justice principles to address the contemporary problem of downsizing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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