The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice

by Hammack, Phillip L.

• ISBN13: 9780199938735
• ISBN10: 0199938733
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2018-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We have witnessed the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism across the globe.

Edited by Phillip L. Hammack, The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice reorients social psychology toward the study of social injustice in real-world settings. The volume's contributing authors effectively span the borders between cultures and disciplines to better highlight new and emerging critical paradigms that interrogate the very real consequences of social injustice.

United in their belief in the possibility of liberation from oppression, with this Handbook, Hammack and his contributors offer a stirring blueprint for a new, important kind of social psychology today.

Author Biography

Phillip L. Hammack is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Politics, Culture & Identity Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Trained as an interdisciplinary social scientist at the University of Chicago, he uses multiple methods to study the lived experience of social injustice and the relationship between self and society. His current research examines sexual and gender identity diversity in social and political context.

Table of Contents

Part I: Psychology and Social Justice: Historical, Theoretical, and Conceptual Foundations

Chapter 1: Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
Phillip L. Hammack

Chapter 2: Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
Susan Opotow

Part II: Critical Ontologies, Paradigms, and Methods

Chapter 3: Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
Regina Langhout and Jesica Fernández

Chapter 4: Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
David M. Frost

Part III: Race, Ethnicity, Inequality

Chapter 5: Extending the Social Psychology of Racism and Moral Exclusion: A Framework for Critical Analysis
Cristian Tileaga

Chapter 6: The Ongoing Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
Stephanie Fryberg, Rebecca Covarrubias, and Jacob A. Burack

Chapter 7: Disjunctive: Social Justice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
William E. Cross, Jr.

Chapter 8: Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
Sumie Okazaki

Chapter 9: Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
Aída Hurtado

Part IV: Gender, Sexuality, Inequality

Chapter 10: "Who is Tossing Whom into the Current?" A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
Abigail J. Stewart and Alyssa N. Zucker

Chapter 11: Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women's Human Rights, Liberation and Social Justice
Shelly Grabe

Chapter 12: Benevolent Heterosexism and the "Less-than-Queer" Citizen Subject
Darren Langdridge

Part V: Class, Poverty, Inequality

Chapter 13: Of "Takers" and "Makers": A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
Heather E. Bullock and Harmony A. Reppond

Chapter 14: Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
Amelia Dean Walker and Laura Smith

Part VI: Globalization, Conflict, Inequality

Chapter 15: Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
James H. Liu and Felicia Pratto

Chapter 16: Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
Sunil Bhatia

Chapter 17: Social Justice in Multicultural Europe: A Social Psychological Perspective
Xenia Chryssochoou

Chapter 18: Positioning Theory and Social Justice
Zachary Warren and Fathali M. Moghaddam

Chapter 19: "In the Minds of Men": Social Representations of War and Military Intervention
J. Christopher Cohrs and Emma O'Dwyer

Part VII: Intervention, Advocacy, Social Policy

Chapter 20: Intergroup Contact in Settings of Protracted Ethnopolitical Conflict
Ifat Maoz

Chapter 21: Intergroup Contact and the Struggle for Social Justice
Kevin Durrheim and John Dixon

Chapter 22: Intergroup Dialogue: Education for Social Justice
Biren (Ratnesh) A. Nagda, Patricia Gurin, and Jaclyn Rodríguez

Chapter 23: Setting the Record "Straight": Communicating Findings from Social Science Research on Sexual Orientation to the Courts
Gregory M. Herek

Part VIII: Concluding Perspectives

Chapter 24: Bear Left: The Critical Psychology Project in Revolting Times
Michelle Fine

Chapter 25: Social Psychology and Social Justice: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and Destinies
Ken Gergen