Cultural Divides

by Prentice, Deborah A.; Miller, Dale T.

• ISBN13: 9780871546906
• ISBN10: 0871546906
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Summary

Can a population of increasingly mixed origins learn to live and work together despite differing cultural backgrounds, or is social polarization by race and ethnicity inevitable? These are the dilemmas explored in Cultural Divides, a compendium of the latest research into the origins and nature of group conflict, by a distinguished group of social psychologists who have joined forces to examine the effects of culture on social life.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
The Psychology of Cultural Contact	p. 1
The Claims of Ethnic Identity
Models of American Ethnic Relations: A Historical Perspective	p. 23
Cultural Diversity and Multicultural Politics: Is Ethnic Balkanization Psychologically Inevitable?	p. 35
Peering into the Jaws of the Beast: The Integrative Dynamics of Social Identity, Symbolic Racism, and Social Dominance	p. 80
Context, Identity, and Intergroup Relations	p. 133
Cultural Differences: Real and Imagined
Across Cultural Divides: The Value of a Superordinate Identity	p. 173
Some Consequences of a Belief in Group Essence: The Category Divide Hypothesis	p. 213
Eastern and Western Perceptions of Causality for Social Behavior: Lay Theories about Personalities and Situations	p. 239
Independence from Whom? Interdependence with Whom? Cultural Perspectives on Ingroups Versus Outgroups	p. 273
Conflictways: Cultural Diversity in the Meanings and Practices of Conflict	p. 302
The Psychology of Race in the United States
Diversity and Organizational Identity: The Problem of Entree After Entry	p. 337
Social Stigma and Self-Esteem: The Role of Contingencies of Worth	p. 364
The Psychological Predicament of Women on Welfare	p. 393
The Distinctive Political Views of Hate-Crime Perpetrators and White Supremacists	p. 429
Cultural Racism: The Intersection of Race and Culture in Intergroup Conflict	p. 465
Index	p. 491
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