ISBN:
0521854997
,
0521671159
,
9780521854993
,
9780521671156
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 359 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Coping with Minority Status : Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion
DDC:
305.5/6
Keywords:
Discrimination
;
Minorities
;
Prejudices
;
Marginality, Social
Abstract:
Analyzes the strategies that minorities use in coping with majorities
Description / Table of Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; 1 On being the target of prejudice: Educationalimplications; 2 "To climb or not to climb?" When minoritiesstick to the floor; 3 Managing the message: Using social influence andattitude change strategies to confront interpersonaldiscrimination; 4 A new representation of minorities as victims; 5 Marginalization through social ostracism: Effectsof being ignored and excluded; 6 Delinquents as a minority group: Accidental touristsin forbidden territory or voluntary emigrées?; 7 Minority-group identification: Responses todiscrimination when group membership is controllable
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Coping with stigmatization: Smokers' reactionsto antismoking campaigns9 Terrorism as a tactic of minority influence; 10 The stigma of racist activism; 11 Why groups fall apart: A social psychologicalmodel of the schismatic process; 12 Multiple identities and the paradox of social inclusion; 13 Prominority policies and cultural change: A dilemmafor minorities; 14 Influence without credit: How successful minoritiesrespond to social cryptomnesia; 15 Influence and its aftermath: Motives for agreementamong minorities and majorities; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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