Rupert Brown 
Prejudice 
Its Social Psychology

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

Содержание

Preface viii

Acknowledgements x

List of Figures xii

1 The Nature of Prejudice 1

2 Prejudiced Individuals 13

3 Social Categorization and Prejudice 35

4 Stereotyping and Prejudice 68

5 The Development of Prejudice in Children 108

6 Prejudice and Intergroup Relations 143

7 Prejudice Old and New 182

8 Prejudice from the Recipients’ Point of View 219

9 Reducing Prejudice 243

Glossary of Key Terms 281

References 290

Subject Index 339

Author Index 345

Об авторе

Rupert Brown is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. He has taught courses on prejudice, group processes, and intergroup relations for over 25 years, and published widely in these fields. His books include Group Processes (second edition, Blackwell, 2000) and, as co-editor, the Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Relations (Blackwell, 2001) and Social Identities (2006).