This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships necessarily include others, but equally they have boundaries that exclude. Frequently these boundaries are challenged or crossed. The book will draw together research on individual motivation, small group processes, stigmatization and intergroup relations, to provide a comprehensive social psychological account of social inclusion and exclusion.

Contents:
Part 1: Individual Inclusion and Exclusion. R.F. Baumeister, J.M. Twenge, Clobbered and Numb: The Effects of Social Exclusion. K.D. Williams, C. Govan, Responses to Ostracism: Supplication or Aggravation. B. Major, C.P. Eccleston, Stigma and Social Exclusion. C.L. Pickett, M.B. Brewer, The Role of Exclusion in Maintaining Inclusion. T. McLaughlin-Volpe, A. Aron, S. Wright, Inclusion of the Self by Close Others and by Groups: Implications of the Self-expansion Model. Part 2: Group Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion. J. Levine, R. Moreland, Socialization and Resocialization: How Groups Manage Inclusion and Exclusion. J.M. Marques, R. Serodio, I. Pinto, M. Cameira, Sustaining the Group and Sustaining the Self: Reactions to In-group and Out-group Deviants. D. Abrams, G. Randsley de Moura, P. Hutchinson, T. Viki, When Bad Becomes Good (and vice versa): Why Social Exclusion is Not Based on Difference. M.A. Hogg, Asymmetrical Reactions to Positive and Negative Deviants in Salient Groups: A Clash of Social Identity Motives. Part 3: Intergroup Exclusion and Inclusion. S. Reicher, N. Emler, Being Wrong about Doing Wrong: An Analysis of the Relationship between Social Exclusion and Adolescent Delinquency. J.F. Dovidio, S.L. Gaertner, Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Recategorization and the Perception of Intergroup Boundaries. M. Hewstone, E. Cairns, C.M. Judd, F. McLernon, A. Voci, Intergroup Contact in a Divided Society: Changing Group Beliefs in Northern Ireland. Part 4: Exclusion of Minorities and Immigrants. B. Mullen, D. Nichols, Cognitive Representations and Exclusion of Ethnic Immigrant Groups. V.M. Esses, J.F. Dovidio, L.M. Jackson, A. Semenya, Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Immigration: The Role of National and International Identities. S. Moscovici, J.A. Perez, Discrimination vs. Ontologization of the Gypsies.

Relations between groups, for example those based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, ability, and socio-economic status, provide the context for everyday life. Intergroup relations frame the way we define and think about others, and how they treat and think about us. Consider how profoundly affected everyday life is by whether relations between groups are harmonious and peaceful, or conflicting and hostile. Not surprisingly, intergroup relations is an exhilarating core topic in social psychology; a topic which connects social psychology with other social sciences, and which challenges social psychology to marshal and to integrate concepts relating to individual cognition, social interaction, and social history.
This book is a collection of classic and contemporary readings that help to define the social psychological study of intergroup relations. In making the selection the editors have tried to capture the diversity and complexity of the topic, as well as some of the major controversies, but with an eye to choosing readings that are accessible to and engaging for students and others who are new to the area.

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The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory as well as setting it in the context of other approaches and perspectives in the psychology of intergroup relations. They look at the way people derive their identity from the social groups to which they belong, and the consequences for their feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of psychologically belonging to a group. They go on to examine the relationship between the individual and society in the context of a discussion of discrimination, stereotyping and intergroup relations, conformity and social influence, cohesiveness and intragoup solidariy, language and ethnic group relations, and collective behaviour.
Social Identifications fills a gap in the literature available to students of social psychology. The authors' presentation of social identity theory in a complete and integrated form and the extensive references and suggestions for further reading they provide will make this an essential source book for social psychologists and other social scientists looking at group behaviour.

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The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account of social identity theory as well as setting it in the context of other approaches and perspectives in the psychology of intergroup relations. They look at the way people derive their identity from the social groups to which they belong, and the consequences for their feelings, thoughts, and behaviour of psychologically belonging to a group. They go on to examine the relationship between the individual and society in the context of a discussion of discrimination, stereotyping and intergroup relations, conformity and social influence, cohesiveness and intragoup solidariy, language and ethnic group relations, and collective behaviour. Social Identifications fills a gap in the literature available to students of social psychology. The authors' presentation of social identity theory in a complete and integrated form and the extensive references and suggestions for further reading they provide will make this an essential source book for social psychologists and other social scientists looking at group behaviour.

Relations between groups, for example those based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, ability, and socio-economic status, provide the context for everyday life. Intergroup relations frame the way we define and think about others, and how they treat and think about us. Consider how profoundly affected everyday life is by whether relations between groups are harmonious and peaceful, or conflicting and hostile. Not surprisingly, intergroup relations is an exhilarating core topic in social psychology; a topic which connects social psychology with other social sciences, and which challenges social psychology to marshal and to integrate concepts relating to individual cognition, social interaction, and social history.
This book is a collection of classic and contemporary readings that help to define the social psychological study of intergroup relations. In making the selection the editors have tried to capture the diversity and complexity of the topic, as well as some of the major controversies, but with an eye to choosing readings that are accessible to and engaging for students and others who are new to the area.

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Related link: Available for Inspection