Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is a comprehensive, scholarly, up-to-date survey of the field of social psychology for the new millennium - a single volume Handbook containing 23 chapters by leading researchers from around the world. It is a state of the art text with an eye to the future, in which rich integrative chapters are thorough analytic reviews. The chapters fall into 5 sections that reflect the scope of social psychology as a global scientific endeavour - history and nature of social psychology, individual processes, interpersonal processes, processes within groups, and intergroup processes and society. The book is edited by Michael Hogg and Joel Cooper, with Dominic Abrams, Elliot Aronson, and Shelley Taylor acting as advisory editors.
Intergroup Behavior and Social Identity
Intergroup Behavior and Social Identity
Introduction
Our sense of who we are, our identity, is profoundly influenced by the groups in society that we belong to. Man or woman, Syrian or Israeli, Latino or African American, Muslim or Hindu, academic or politician these are (social) identities which are grounded in social groups and defined by the normative properties of such groups and the nature of the relations between one's ingroup and relevant outgroups. Intergroup behavior and self-definition are inextricable – each influencing one another. In this chapter, we discuss intergroup behavior (prejudice, discrimination, stigma, disadvantage, social conflict and harmony, and so forth) and its relationship to self-conception and social identity.
Intergroup behavior refers to how people in groups perceive, think about, feel ...
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