Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination

by Oskamp, Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780805834826
• ISBN10: 0805834826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Finding ways to reduce prejudice and discrimination is the central issue in attacking racism in our society. Yet this book is almost unique among scientific volumes in its focus on that goal. This important book combines critical analysis of theories about how to reduce prejudice and discrimination with cutting-edge empirical research conducted in real-world settings, as well as in controlled laboratory situations. This book's outstanding contributors focus on a common set of questions about ways to reduce intergroup conflict, prejudice, and stereotyping. They summarize their own research, as well as others, interpret the conclusions, and suggest implications concerning the practical methods that have been, or could be, used in programs aimed at reducing intergroup conflict. The chapters present solidly based critical analyses and research findings in clear, reader-friendly prose. This book evolved from the Sixteenth Annual Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology. Each Symposium in the series concentrates on a single area in which social psychological knowledge is being applied to the resolution of a current social problem. Ideal for teachers, social workers, administrators, managers, and other social practitioners who are concerned about prejudice and discrimination, this book will also serve as a valuable foundation of knowledge in courses that examine this topic.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Multiple Paths to Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination	1	(22)
Stuart Oskamp
PART I: BACKGROUND FACTORS AFFECTING PREJUDICE
An Integrated Threat Theory of Prejudice	23	(24)
Walter S. Stephan
Cookie White Stephan
Gender and Race Discrimination: The Interactive Nature of Disadvantage	47	(24)
Jim Sidanius
Rosemary C. Veniegas
Social Contextual Strategies for Reducing Racial Discrimination	71	(22)
Marylee C. Taylor
PART II: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON REDUCING PREJUDICE
Does Intergroup Contact Reduce Prejudice? Recent Meta-Analytic Findings	93	(22)
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Linda R. Tropp
Interdependence and the Reduction of Prejudice	115	(22)
Susan T. Fiske
Reducing Contemporary Prejudice: Combating Explicit and Implicit Bias at the Individual and Intergroup Level	137	(28)
John F. Dovidio
Kerry Kawakami
Samuel L. Gaertner
Reducing Prejudice Through Cross-Categorization: Effects of Multiple Social Identities	165	(20)
Marilynn B. Brewer
Breaking the Prejudice Habit: Progress and Obstacles	185	(26)
Patricia G. Devine
E. Ashby Plant
Brenda N. Buswell
PART III: APPLICATIONS IN SOCIAL SETTINGS
Reducing Prejudice: The Target's Perspective	211	(28)
Brenda Major
Wendy J. Quinton
Shannon K. McCoy
Toni Schmader
The Three Cs of Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination	239	(30)
David W. Johnson
Roger T. Johnson
Interventions to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Children and Adolescents	269	(26)
Frances E. Aboud
Sheri R. Levy
Moderators and Mediators of Prejudice Reduction in Multicultural Education	295	(24)
Michele A. Wittig
Ludwin Molina
Promising Practices in Reducing Prejudice: A Report from the President's Initiative on Race	319	(16)
Stuart Oskamp
James M. Jones
About the Authors	335	(6)
Author Index	341	(8)
Subject Index	349