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The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination

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July 2010 | 672 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The SAGE Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination provides comprehensive coverage on the state of research, critical analysis and promising avenues for further study on prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. Each chapter presents in-depth reviews of specific topics, describing the current state of knowledge and identifying the most productive new directions for future research.

Representing both traditional and emerging perspectives, this multi-disiplinary and truly international volume will serve as a seminal resource for students and scholars.

The Handbook is divided into six main sections.

Part 1: Overview of the Topics examines different conceptual perspectives, historical trends and methods in the study of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Part 2: Basic Processes reviews the Development Process, Neutral Process, Cognitive Process, Affective Process and Individual Differences.

Part 3: Causes of Prejudice and Stereotyping considers individual, social and cultural processes that perpetuate prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Part 4: Expression of Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination describes the dynamics of the expression of prejudice and stereotyping.

Part 5: Social Impact of Prejudice, Sterotyping and Discrimination considers the consequences of each.

Part 6: Combating Bias explores the ways of reducing bias.

This volume will be an excellent reference resource for advanced students, graduate students and professionals who have a wish or need to learn about the areas of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

 
PART ONE: OVERVIEW OF THE TOPIC
John F Dovidio et al
Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination
Theoretical and Empirical Overview

 
John Duckitt
Historical Overview
Joshua Correll et al
Measuring Prejudice, Stereotypes and Discrimination
 
PART TWO: BASIC PROCESSES AND CAUSES OF PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
Susanne Quadflieg, Malia F Mason and C Neil Macrae
Social Cognitive Neural Processes
Mark Schaller, Lucian Gideon Conway III and K Michelle Peavy
Evolutionary Processes
Melanie Killen, Cameron B Richardson and Megan Clark Kelly
Developmental Perspectives
Susan T Fiske and Ann Marie Russell
Cognitive Processes
Eliot R Smith and Diane M Mackie
Affective Processes
Vincent Y Yzerbyt
Motivational Processes
Leanne S Son Hing and Mark P Zanna
Individual Differences
Dominic Abrams and Michael Hogg
Social Identity and Self-Categorization
Jacques-Philippe Leyens and Stéphanie Demoulin
Ethnocentrism and Group Realities
Amanda B Diekman, Alice H Eagly and Amanda M Johnston
Social Structure
Victoria M Esses, Lynne M Jackson and Caroline Bennett-AbuAyyash
Intergroup Competition
Diana C Mutz and Seth K Goldman
Mass Media
 
PART THREE: EXPRESSION OF PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
Gregory R Maio et al
Attitudes and Intergroup Relations
Jennifer A Richeson and J Nicole Shelton
Intergroup Dyadic Interactions
Rafaela M Dancygier and Donald P Green
Hate Crime
John F Dovidio, Samuel L Gaertner and Kerry Kawakami
Racism
Peter Glick and Laurie A Rudman
Sexism
Michelle R Hebl, Charlie L Law and Eden King
Heterosexism
Ulrich Wagner, Oliver Christ and Wilhelm Heitmeyer
Anti-Immigration Bias
 
PART FOUR: SOCIAL IMPACT OF PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
Diane M Quinn, Rachel W Kallen and Steven J Spencer
Stereotype Threat
Jennifer Crocker and Julie A Garcia
Internalized Devaluation and Situational Threat
Brenda Major and Sarah S M Townsend
Coping with Bias
P J Henry
Institutional Bias
Alexis N Smith, Arthur P Brief and Adrienne Collela
Bias in Organizations
Kristina R Schmukler et al
Public Policy
Louis A Penner et al
Health and Health-Care Disparities
 
PART FIVE: COMBATING PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
Margo J Monteith, Steven A Arthur and Sara McQueary Flynn
Self-Regulation and Bias
Richard J Crisp
Prejudice and Perceiving Multiple Identities
Samuel L Gaertner, John F Dovidio and Melissa A Houlette
Social Categorization
Nicole Tausch and Miles Hewstone
Intergroup Contact
Naomi Ellemers and Colette van Laar
Individual Mobility
Stephen C Wright
Collective Action and Social Change
 
PART SIX: COMMENTARY: FUTURE RESEARCH ON PREJUDICE, STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
Thomas F Pettigrew
Looking to the Future

excellent book easy to read and refer to

Mrs Deborah Regan
academy, Havering College of Further and Higher Education
May 8, 2013

An excellent resource for students considering research proposals. Well constructed and very accessible, covering a wide content of issues pertaining to this subject area.

Ms Sarah Maris-Shaw
Allied Health Sceinces, London South Bank University
April 22, 2013
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Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 1


John F. Dovidio

Miles Hewstone

Peter Glick

Victoria M. Esses

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