Beyond Prejudice :Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change

Publication subTitle :Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change

Author: John Dixon; Mark Levine  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781139200035

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521198165

Subject: B844 发展心理学(人类心理学)

Keyword: 发展心理学(人类心理学)

Language: ENG

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Beyond Prejudice

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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 gain a clearer understanding of relations within and between groups. This fresh look at prejudice will appeal to scholars and students of social psychology, sociology, political science and peace studies.

Chapter

Part I Beyond prejudice

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

Conclusion

Notes

References

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

Conclusion

References

3 An ambivalent alliance: hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality

The nature of sexism

Why benevolent prejudices matter

Hostile and benevolent sexism: universal prejudices?

Polarized images of women

Gender inequality

Women’s acceptance of sexist ideologies

Implications for theories of prejudice: paternalistic versus envious prejudices

Conclusion

Note

References

4 Prejudice and dehumanization

Understanding humanization: a new model

Applying the model to forms of prejudice

Race and ethnicity

Gender

Class

Dehumanization and the ‘prejudice problematic’

References

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

Conclusion

References

6 Beyond ‘old’ and ‘new’: for a social psychology of racism

Racism, old and new

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

Racialization

Devaluation

Discourse and prejudice as signs with a social psychological appeal

Note

References

7 The notion of ‘prejudice’: some rhetorical and. deological aspects

Introduction

Denial of prejudice

The norm against prejudice

The meaning of ‘prejudice’

Justification and denial of prejudice

Conclusion

References

8 The prejudice problematic

Prejudice in social psychological and lay discourse

Individual bigotry and collective guilt

Stones:

Wetherell:

Bradman:

Boardman:

Irrationality and prejudgement

Sedge

The manifest and the latent

Andrews:

Reed:

Tolerance and harmony

Ben Couch (Former Minister of Maori Affairs):

Dodging the identity of prejudice: how to deal with accusations

Wetherell:

Bickerstaff:

Wetherell:

Ackland:

Reforming the prejudiced

Discourse analysis and anti-racism

Note

References

9 Implicit prejudice in mind and interaction

Critique of implicit prejudice

The subject of prejudice

The implicit prejudice in talk-in-interaction: stereotyping by implication

Conclusion

References

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

Collaboration in action

Interactional scaffolding I: entrainment

Interactional scaffolding II: facilitation and reinforcement

Improvisation and joint construction

Distributed inhibition

Concluding comments

Notes

References

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

Note

References

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

Summary and implications

13 Contact and social change in an ongoing asymmetrical conflict: four social-psychological models of reconciliation-aimed planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians

Introduction

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

Method

The coexistence model

Strengths and dilemmas

The joint projects model

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

References

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

Ambivalent sexism

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

(1) Relationality

(2) Expanding our conception of a successful intervention ‘outcome’

(3) Contextualizing change

(4) Complexities of harmony and conflict

References

Index

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