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Beyond Prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
John Dixon
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Description for Beyond Prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
paperback. This edited collection of essays re-evaluates the concept of prejudice and attempts to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject. Editor(s): Dixon, Prof. John; Levine, Mark. Num Pages: 346 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 558. Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change. 346 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 table. Editor(s): Dixon, John; Levine, Mark. This edited collection of essays re-evaluates the concept of prejudice and attempts to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JMH. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 16. Weight: 558.
The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it expanded or narrowed the horizons of psychological inquiry? How effective or ineffective has it been in guiding our attempts to transform social relations and institutions? In this book, a team of internationally renowned psychologists re-evaluate the concept of prejudice, in an attempt to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject and to help the reader ... Read more
The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it expanded or narrowed the horizons of psychological inquiry? How effective or ineffective has it been in guiding our attempts to transform social relations and institutions? In this book, a team of internationally renowned psychologists re-evaluate the concept of prejudice, in an attempt to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject and to help the reader ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521139625
SKU
V9780521139625
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About John Dixon
Dr John Dixon is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology at Lancaster University, having lectured previously at the University of Worcester and the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on the topics of prejudice, intergroup conflict and prejudice reduction and is the co-author, with Kevin Durrheim, of Racial Encounter: The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation (2005). He ... Read more
Reviews for Beyond Prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change
'In Beyond Prejudice, an eclectic, internationally renowned group of social psychologists interrogate such staples of their discipline as emotional antipathy, implicit bias, stereotype construction and processes of communication and ideology in promoting racism, sexism and dehumanizing treatment in general. All of the authors are asking how we can change hearts, minds and - most important of all - social systems ... Read more