ISBN:
9780805834819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (368 p)
Series Statement:
Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series
Parallel Title:
Print version Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination
DDC:
303.385
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Finding ways to reduce prejudice and discrimination is the central issue in attacking racism in our society. Yet this book is almost unique among scientific volumes in its focus on that goal. This important book combines critical analysis of theories about how to reduce prejudice and discrimination with cutting-edge empirical research conducted in real-world settings, as well as in controlled laboratory situations. This book's outstanding contributors focus on a common set of questions about ways to reduce intergroup conflict, prejudice, and stereotyping. They summarize their own research, a
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Multiple Paths to Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination; PART I: BACKGROUND FACTORS AFFECTING PREJUDICE; 2. An Integrated Threat Theory of Prejudice; 3. Gender and Race Discrimination: The Interactive Nature of Disadvantage; 4. Social Contextual Strategies for Reducing Racial Discrimination; PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON REDUCING PREJUDICE; 5. Does Intergroup Contact Reduce Prejudice? Recent Meta-Analytic Findings; 6. Interdependence and the Reduction of Prejudice
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Reducing Contemporary Prejudice: Combating Explicit and Implicit Bias at the Individual and Intergroup Level8. Reducing Prejudice Through Cross-Categorization: Effects of Multiple Social Identities; 9. Breaking the Prejudice Habit: Progress and Obstacles; PART III: APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SETTINGS; 10. Reducing Prejudice: The Target's Perspective; 11. The Three Cs of Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination; 12. Interventions to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Children and Adolescents; 13. Moderators and Mediators of Prejudice Reduction in Multicultural Education
Description / Table of Contents:
14. Promising Practices in Reducing Prejudice: A Report from the President's Initiative on RaceAbout the Authors; Author Index; Subject Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
