Main description:
Featuring chapters on traditional prejudice topics such as categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is a wide-ranging textbook that covers the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of prejudice attached to all forms of inequality. Mixed in with this content are further chapters that explore newer and more nontraditional diversity topics, such as sexual-orientation and social class-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, and diversity on television.
A number of student-friendly features appear in this text, including:
- `Diversity Issue' boxes, spotlighted in each chapter, centre around recent issues, or research findings related to prejudice or social stigma.
- `Making Connections' questions interspersed throughout chapters stop readers and encourage them to think more deeply about issues/ concepts just covered.
- Summaries, Key Terms in the text and at the beginning of chapters, Further Readings and interesting Websites are also all included.
Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is the perfect textbook for courses on the Psychology of Diversity, Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination as well as Race and Gender.
Table of contents:
An Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity
Categorization and Stereotyping
Cognitive Processes that Shape Perceived Diversity
Stereotypes Expressed
Social Processes that Shape Actual Diversity
Prejudice
Evaluating Social Difference
Understanding Race, Racial Stereotypes, and Racism
Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism
Understanding Moral Prejudice
Classism, Homosexism, and Religion
Diversity on Television
Social Stigma
The Experience of Prejudice
Coping with Social Stigma
Responding to Social Inequality
Behavioral and Cognitive Interventions for Reducing Prejudice
Featuring chapters on traditional prejudice topics such as categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is a wide-ranging textbook that covers the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of prejudice attached to all forms of inequality. Mixed in with this content are further chapters that explore newer and more nontraditional diversity topics, such as sexual-orientation and social class-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, and diversity on television.
A number of student-friendly features appear in this text, including:
- `Diversity Issue' boxes, spotlighted in each chapter, centre around recent issues, or research findings related to prejudice or social stigma.
- `Making Connections' questions interspersed throughout chapters stop readers and encourage them to think more deeply about issues/ concepts just covered.
- Summaries, Key Terms in the text and at the beginning of chapters, Further Readings and interesting Websites are also all included.
Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is the perfect textbook for courses on the Psychology of Diversity, Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination as well as Race and Gender.
Table of contents:
An Introduction to the Psychology of Diversity
Categorization and Stereotyping
Cognitive Processes that Shape Perceived Diversity
Stereotypes Expressed
Social Processes that Shape Actual Diversity
Prejudice
Evaluating Social Difference
Understanding Race, Racial Stereotypes, and Racism
Understanding Gender Stereotypes and Sexism
Understanding Obesity Stereotypes and Weightism
Understanding Moral Prejudice
Classism, Homosexism, and Religion
Diversity on Television
Social Stigma
The Experience of Prejudice
Coping with Social Stigma
Responding to Social Inequality
Behavioral and Cognitive Interventions for Reducing Prejudice