Categorization in Social Psychology

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Craig McGarty - Western Sydney University, Australia

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September 1999 | 320 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology.

In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology.

PART ONE: COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CATEGORIZATION

Some Starting Assumptions

Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus

Categorization and Cognition I

Introducing Category Function and Structure

Categorizationand Cognition II

Category Learning, Formation and Use

The Categorization Process in Social Psychology I

Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation

Categorization as Meaning Creation I

Self-Categorization Theory and Some Other Developments

Categorization as Meaning Creation II

Other Sense-Making Approaches

Contrasting Perspectives on Motivated Relative Perception

PART TWO: SOME EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION

Group Variability and Consistency

The Constraints of the Social Context on Categorization

Categorization, Covariation and Causal Explanation

Conclusion

Categorization as Explanation

This is a great, in depth of a topic very relevant to my course. I have set it as a recommended reading and I envision it will be read by third years and masters students who choose to write their assignment on this topic.

Dr Rose Meleady

School of Psychology, University of East Anglia

September 9, 2013

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This is an extremely useful textbook for teaching social psychology. Some of the research is a bit outdated. It is well written, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field.

Dr Anna Kende

Department of Educational and Social Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University

March 12, 2013

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Craig McGarty

Craig McGarty is Professor of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He received his undergraduate training in psychology at the University of Adelaide and his PhD from Macquarie University in 1991 (where he was a tutor from 1985 until 1989). He spent 1990 as a lecturer in social psychology/social interaction at the University of Western Sydney and moved in 1991 to the Australian National University as a research associate. He was Reader and Head of the School of Psychology before moving to Murdoch University in Western Australia as the Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and then Director of the Social Research... More About Author

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