Prejudice: Its Social Psychology

by Rupert Brown

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405113076
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/23/2010
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.84(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

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).

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Table of Contents

Preface viii

Acknowledgements x

List of Figures xii

1 The Nature of Prejudice 1

2 Prejudiced Individuals 13

3 Social Categorization and Prejudice 35

4 Stereotyping and Prejudice 68

5 The Development of Prejudice in Children 108

6 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations 143

7 Prejudice Old and New 182

8 Prejudice from the Recipients' Point of View 219

9 Reducing Prejudice 243

Glossary of Key Terms 281

References 290

Subject Index 339

Author Index 345

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"This top-notch, readable authority on modern prejudices explains how groups target people as interchangeable category members, through a socially shared lens shaped by conflict and power. Brown expertly confronts today's multi-cultural challenges."
–Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University

"In the 15 years since the publication of the first edition of this book, there have been many exciting advances in the study of prejudice. Rupert Brown's well-written second edition of Prejudice expands his earlier volume with a straightforward description of these new advances. This welcome addition to the shelf of social psychological books is now the definitive text of choice on the subject. Moreover, with its 800+ item bibliography and new theoretical ideas, it can also be highly recommended for the specialist."
–Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz

"Brown's original book, Prejudice, became the authoritative standard text in its field. Fifteen years on and that field has expanded massively yet this new edition remains a superbly written, comprehensive, excellently organised and thoroughly absorbing survey of the social psychology of Prejudice. It has been worth waiting for."
–Dominic Abrams, University of Kent