Chapter
1 From perception to mobilization: the shifting paradigm of prejudice
Introduction: defining the problem
Four assumptions of the ‘perceptual paradigm’ of prejudice
(1) Prejudice is about the outgroup
(2) Prejudice is about (mis)perception
(3) Prejudice is about the negative qualities of the other
(4) Prejudice is about the views of ordinary people
Challenging prejudice: the limits of contact
2 Prejudice, social identity and social change: resolving the Allportian problematic
The prevailing meta-theory of prejudice:the Allportian problematic
The new ‘social identity’ view of prejudice in social psychology
The nature of the self-process:human beings as both individuals and group members
Stereotyping and prejudice as an outcome of one’s vantage point as a group member
Prejudice, group action and social change
3 An ambivalent alliance: hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality
Why benevolent prejudices matter
Hostile and benevolent sexism: universal prejudices?
Polarized images of women
Women’s acceptance of sexist ideologies
Implications for theories of prejudice: paternalistic versus envious prejudices
4 Prejudice and dehumanization
Understanding humanization: a new model
Applying the model to forms of prejudice
Dehumanization and the ‘prejudice problematic’
5 Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination revisited: from William James to W. E. B. Du Bois
Intergroup relations from the perspective of stigmatized individuals: an overview
Origins of W. E. B. Du Bois’s self-theory:William James’s self-theory
Du Bois’s self-theory as distinct from James’s self-theory
Racial identity as a key construct in Du Bois’s self-theory
Racial identity as a unique form of ethnic identity
The historical role of the African American church in nurturing black racial identity development
Beyond the African American church: the civil rights movement and racial identity in the age of Obama
Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness:an unsustainable argument?
Stereotype threat:a complement to racial identity?
Implications for research on racial identity and Du Bois’s self-theory
6 Beyond ‘old’ and ‘new’: for a social psychology of racism
From civilizing missions to racelessness
Essentialism and problematization in ‘antiquated’ forms
Theories of contemporary racism and the ‘prejudice problematic’
For a social psychology of racism
Discourse and prejudice as signs with a social psychological appeal
7 The notion of ‘prejudice’: some rhetorical and. deological aspects
The norm against prejudice
The meaning of ‘prejudice’
Justification and denial of prejudice
8 The prejudice problematic
Prejudice in social psychological and lay discourse
Individual bigotry and collective guilt
Irrationality and prejudgement
The manifest and the latent
Ben Couch (Former Minister of Maori Affairs):
Dodging the identity of prejudice: how to deal with accusations
Discourse analysis and anti-racism
9 Implicit prejudice in mind and interaction
Critique of implicit prejudice
The implicit prejudice in talk-in-interaction: stereotyping by implication
10 Rethinking the prejudice problematic: a collaborative cognition approach
The vagueness of prejudice
The taxonomic imagination
Reconceiving the agent of prejudice: from methodological individualism to collaborative cognition
Studying collaborative processes
Rediscovering public prejudice
Beyond the laboratory: prejudice in the wild
Interactional scaffolding I: entrainment
Interactional scaffolding II: facilitation and reinforcement
Improvisation and joint construction
Part II Prejudice and social change revisited
11 Models of social change in social psychology: collective action or prejudice reduction? Conflict or harmony?
Can there be too much harmony?
Prejudice reduction or collective action? Focusing on different targets
Contradictory psychologies for the disadvantaged
Implications for contact and separation
Who is the agent of change?
Prejudice reduction or collective action? Focusing on different levels of analysis
Challenges for the micr→meso→macro causal sequence
Conclusions and resolutions
12 From attitudes to (in)action: the darker side of ‘we’
The common ingroup identity model
Recategorization as one group or a dual identity: a functional approach
Group preferences for one-group and dual-identity representations
Common identity, intergroup attitudes and action for change
13 Contact and social change in an ongoing asymmetrical conflict: four social-psychological models of reconciliation-aimed planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians:an overview
The contact hypothesis and planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Different models of planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians
Strengths and limitations
The confrontational model
Strengths, dilemmas and limitations
The narrative-story-telling model
Strengths and limitations
Discussion and conclusions
14 From prejudice to collective action
The dynamics of increasing hostile intergroup attitudes and conflict
(1) Police action alienates a peaceful majority
(2) Ingroup inclusion and reducing of ‘prejudice’ towards previously shunned radicals
(3) Increased ‘prejudice’ towards the police
Intergroup dynamics and psychological change
The dynamics of reducing conflict and prejudice during crowd events
(1) Police action as facilitative
(2) The rejection of ‘hooligans’ from the ‘ingroup’
(3) Reduction of ‘prejudice’ to the police
Conclusions and future directions:the nature, signi.cance and inherent limitations of the concept of prejudice in social psychology
Challenges to the prejudice problematic
The limits of irrationalism
Self-categorization, social identity and the ‘veridicality’ of intergroup perceptions
Thinking ill of others with sufficient warrant
The limits of affective negativity
The ‘velvet glove’ of benign discrimination
The darker side of inclusion
The limits of a prejudice reduction model of social change
Two routes to social change in historically unequal societies
Paradoxical effects of intergroup contact
Prejudice reduction and social change revisited:some suggested parameters and future directions
(2) Expanding our conception of a successful intervention ‘outcome’
(3) Contextualizing change
(4) Complexities of harmony and conflict