By Miles Hewstone, Richard J. Crisp
'Ethnic cleansing', 'institutional racism', and 'social exclusion' are only many of the phrases used to explain probably the most urgent social concerns dealing with today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. continuously, those pervasive social difficulties will be traced again to modifications in faith, ethnicity, or numerous different bases of workforce club: the social different types to which individuals belong.
Social categorization, how we classify ourselves and others, exerts a profound impact on our options, ideals, emotions, and behaviors. during this quantity, Richard Crisp and Miles Hewstone compile a range of prime figures within the social sciences to target a swiftly rising, yet seriously vital, new query: how, whilst, and why do humans classify others alongside a number of dimensions of social categorization? the amount additionally explores what this implies for social habit, and what implications a number of and complicated perceptions of type club may need for decreasing prejudice, discrimination, and social exclusion.
Topics lined include:
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* the cognitive, motivational, and affective implications of a number of categorization
* the crossed categorization and customary ingroup equipment of lowering prejudice and intergroup discrimination
* the character of social categorization between multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual individuals.
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Multiple Social Categorization: procedure, types and Applications addresses matters which are critical to social psychology and should be of specific curiosity to these learning or gaining knowledge of within the fields of workforce methods and Intergroup Relations.
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