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Human Groups and Social Categories

Human Groups and Social Categories

Human Groups and Social Categories

Studies in Social Psychology
Henri Tajfel, University of Bristol
April 1981
Paperback
9780521280730
£43.99
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    First published in 1981, this volume presents studies on the social psychology of the relations and conflicts between social groups. Henri Tajfel played a central role in the development of social psychology in Europe, both in his own research and in his sponsorship of other European research. He has been particularly influential through his publications on various aspects of inter-group behaviour and a good deal of what he has written remains dispersed in a large number of different publications. This book presents a synthesis of some of this work, edited and structured to demonstrate its continuity and its cumulative importance. The book will be indispensable for social psychologists and should interest a wide range of political and social scientists.

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    April 1981
    Paperback
    9780521280730
    384 pages
    230 × 153 × 30 mm
    0.6kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Acknowledgements
    • Foreword Jerome S. Bruner
    • 1. The development of a perspective
    • Part I. Social Psychology and Social Processes: Introduction
    • 2. Experiments in a vacuum
    • 3. Individuals and groups ion social psychology
    • Part II. From Perceptual Judgement to Social Stereotypes: Introduction
    • 4. The importance of exagerrating
    • 5. Differences and similarities: some contexts of judgement
    • 6. Cognitive aspects of prejudice
    • 7. Social stereotypes and social groups
    • Part III. Insiders and Outsiders: Introduction
    • 8. The experience of prejudice
    • 9. The beginnings of ethnocentrism
    • 10. Children's international perspectives
    • Part IV. Intergroup Conflict: Introduction
    • 11. The attributes of intergroup behaviour
    • 12. Social categorization, social identity and social comparison
    • 13. The achievement of group differentiation
    • 14. Exit and voice in intergroup relations
    • 15. The social psychology of minorities
    • References
    • Indices.
      Contributors
    • Jerome S. Bruner

    • Author
    • Henri Tajfel , University of Bristol