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Understanding the psychology of diversity / Bruce Evan Blaine.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2013.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xvi, 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781452203331 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8001 23 BLA
Contents:
1. An Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity 2. Categorization and Stereotyping: Cognitive Processes that Shape Perceived Diversity 3. Stereotypes Expressed: Social Processes that Shape Actual Diversity 4. Prejudice: Evaluating Social Differences 5. Understanding Race, Racial Stereotypes, and Racism 6. Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism 7. Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism 8. Understanding Moral Prejudice: Classism, and Homosexism 9. Understanding age stereotypes and ageism 10. Social stigma: the experience of prejudice 11. Coping with social stigma 12. Responding to social inequality: Behavioral and cognitive interventions for reducing prejudice
Summary: Covering the cognitive and emotional foundations of prejudice underpinning all forms of inequality,Understanding the Psychology of Diversity examines social difference, social inequality, and the problems inherent to inequality from a psychological perspective. By studying how the individual constructs his or her view of social diversity and how she or he is defined and influenced by social diversity, the author presents all that psychology has to offer on this critically important topic. The text features chapters on traditional topics such as categorization, stereotypes, sexism, and racism. Further chapters explore new, nontraditional diversity topics, such as weightism, ageism, sexual prejudice, and stigma. With a comprehensive breadth of topics covered, this textbook is sure to appeal to a diverse group of students. --Publisher description.
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1. An Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity 2. Categorization and Stereotyping: Cognitive Processes that Shape Perceived Diversity 3. Stereotypes Expressed: Social Processes that Shape Actual Diversity 4. Prejudice: Evaluating Social Differences 5. Understanding Race, Racial Stereotypes, and Racism 6. Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism 7. Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism 8. Understanding Moral Prejudice: Classism, and Homosexism 9. Understanding age stereotypes and ageism 10. Social stigma: the experience of prejudice 11. Coping with social stigma 12. Responding to social inequality: Behavioral and cognitive interventions for reducing prejudice

Covering the cognitive and emotional foundations of prejudice underpinning all forms of inequality,Understanding the Psychology of Diversity examines social difference, social inequality, and the problems inherent to inequality from a psychological perspective. By studying how the individual constructs his or her view of social diversity and how she or he is defined and influenced by social diversity, the author presents all that psychology has to offer on this critically important topic. The text features chapters on traditional topics such as categorization, stereotypes, sexism, and racism. Further chapters explore new, nontraditional diversity topics, such as weightism, ageism, sexual prejudice, and stigma. With a comprehensive breadth of topics covered, this textbook is sure to appeal to a diverse group of students. --Publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-278) and index.

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