Prejudice
Its Social Psychology
2. Edition July 2010
368 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive
treatment of the subject, introducing the major theoretical ideas
as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments.
* Takes a social psychological perspective, analysing individual
behavior as part of a pattern of intergroup processes
* Covers the major research, including classical personality
accounts, developmental approaches, socio-cognitive research
focussing on categorization and stereotyping, prejudice as an
intergroup phenomenon, and ways to combat prejudice
* Illustrates concepts with examples of different kinds of
prejudice drawn from everyday life
* Includes a new chapter on prejudice from the victim's
perspective
* Fully updated throughout, with expansion of the notions of
explicit and implicit manifestations of prejudice
Acknowledgements.
List of Figures.
1. The Nature of Prejudice.
2. Prejudiced Individuals.
3. Social Categorization and Prejudice.
4. Stereotyping and Prejudice.
5. The Development of Prejudice in Children.
6. Prejudice and Intergroup Relations.
7. Prejudice Old and New.
8. Prejudice from the Recipients' Point of View.
9. Reducing Prejudice.
Glossary of Key Terms.
References.
Subject Index.
Author Index.
how groups target people as interchangeable category members,
through a socially shared lens shaped by conflict and power. Brown
expertly confronts today's multi-cultural challenges."
-Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University
"In the 15 years since the publication of the first edition of
this book, there have been many exciting advances in the study of
prejudice. Rupert Brown's well-written second edition of
Prejudice expands his earlier volume with a straightforward
description of these new advances. This welcome addition to the
shelf of social psychological books is now the definitive text of
choice on the subject. Moreover, with its 800+ item bibliography
and new theoretical ideas, it can also be highly recommended for
the specialist."
-Thomas F. Pettigrew, University of California, Santa
Cruz
"Brown's original book, Prejudice, became the
authoritative standard text in its field. Fifteen years on and that
field has expanded massively yet this new edition remains a
superbly written, comprehensive, excellently organised and
thoroughly absorbing survey of the social psychology of Prejudice.
It has been worth waiting for."
-Dominic Abrams, University of Kent