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Cultural Diversity Its Social Psychology

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ISBN-10: 0631231234

ISBN-13: 9780631231233

Edition: 2004

Authors: Xenia Chryssochoou

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In 'Cultural Diversity' Xenia Chryssochoou shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about cultural diversity and immigration. The text helps readers to understand both the processes that have shaped modern societies and the diversity issues that they now face.
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Book details

List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/16/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.75" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
What is Social Psychology About?
Social Psychology and the Study of Multicultural Societies
Cultural Memberships and Understanding of the Social World
Beliefs About Acculturation: The Coexistence of Different Cultures Under the Same Political and Social Organization
Moving Into New Environments: The Perspective of People Belonging to Non-Dominant Cultural Groups
Managing Change, Unfamiliar Environments, and Experiences: Acculturation as a Major Life-Change Event
Transmitting and Retaining One's Cultural Values, and Challenges to Perceptions of the World and of the Self
Becoming a Member of the "New Society": Dealing with Devalued/Minority Identities, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Receiving Immigrants, Perceiving the Other: Reactions of People Belonging to Dominant Cultural Groups
Social Psychological Theories of Prejudice
Representations of Groups: Stereotypes and Social Categorization
Prejudice Linked to Racial Differentiation
Constructing "Otherness": Extreme Problematizations of the Outgroup
Feeling Threatened: Identity, Change, and Resources
Living Together in Culturally Diverse Societies
Reducing Prejudice: Contact and Categorization Issues
Relationships Between Groups: Issues of Negative and Positive Interdependence and Power
Superordinate Memberships: The Battle for Group Beliefs
Towards Cultural Diversity: Representations, Identity, and Social Influence
The Nation-State: A Powerful Ingroup
Supranational Groups, Multiple Identities, and Founding Myths: Developing New Projects
In the Name of Identity: Self-Knowledge and the Politics of Rights, Claims, and Recognition in Culturally Diverse Societies
Theoretical Snapshots
References
Index