Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications

by Crisp, Richard J.; Hewstone, Miles

• ISBN13: 9780203969229
• ISBN10: 0203969227
• Copyright: 2007-02-08
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models and Applications will be of interest to those studying or researching in social psychology, in particular in the fields of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Multiple social categorization: Context, process, and social consequences

Multiple Category Representation

Hierarchies and minority groups: The roles of salience, overlap and background knowledge in selecting meaningful social categorizations from multiple alternatives

Multiply categorizable social objects: representational models and some potential determinants of category use

Multiple Categorization and Social Judgement

Recategorization and crossed categorization: The implications of group salience and representations for reducing bias

Commitment and categorization in common ingroup contexts

Self-concept threat and multiple categorization within groups

Cross-Cutting Categorization and Evaluation

Explaining the effects of crossed categorization on ethnocentric bias

The crossed categorization hypothesis: cognitive mechanisms and patterns of intergroup bias

Gender among multiple social categories: Social attraction in women but interpersonal attraction in men

Broader Perspectives

Social categorization among multicultural, multiethnic, and multiracial individuals: Processes and implications

Political institutions and multiple social identities

Conclusion

Multiple social categorization: Future directions

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