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Coping with minority status : responses to exclusion and inclusion / [edited by] Fabrizio Butera and John M. Levine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: viii, 359 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521854993
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.56 23 B983
Contents:
1. On being the target of prejudice: educational implications / Michael Inzlicht, Joshua Aronson, and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- 2. To climb or not to climb? When minorities stick to the floor / Margarita Sanchez-Mazas and Annalisa Casini -- 3. Managing the message: using social influence and attitude change strategies to confront interpersonal discrimination / Janet Swim [and others] -- 4. A new representation of minorities as victims / Serge Moscovici and Juan Perez -- 5. Marginalization through social ostracism: effects of being ignored and excluded / Kipling D. Williams and Adrienne Carter-Sowell -- 6. Delinquents as a minority group: accidental tourists in forbidden territory or voluntary emigrées? / Nicholas Emler -- 7. Minority group identification: responses to discrimination when group membership is controllable / Jolanda Jetten and Nyla R. Branscombe -- 8. Coping with stigmatization: smokers' reactions to antismoking campaigns / Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor [and others] -- 9. Terrorism as a tactic of minority influence / Xiaoyan Chen and Arie W. Kruglanski -- 10. The stigma of racist activism / Kathleen M. Blee -- 11. Why groups fall apart: a social psychological model of the schismatic process / Fabio Sani -- 12. Multiple identities and the paradox of social inclusion / Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers -- 13. Pro-minority policies and cultural change: a dilemma for minorities / Angelica Mucchi-Faina -- 14. Influence without credit: how successful minorities respond to social cyptomnesia / Fabrizio Butera, John Levine, and Jean-Pierre Vernet -- 15. Influence and its aftermath: motives for agreement among minorities and majorities / Radmila Prislin and P. Niels Christensen.
Summary: Society consists of numerous interconnected, interacting, and interdependent groups, which differ in power and status. The consequences of belonging to a more powerful, higher-status 'majority' versus a less powerful, lower-status 'minority' can be profound, and the tensions that arise between these groups are the root of society's most difficult problems. To understand the origins of these problems and develop solutions for them, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of majority-minority relations. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of stigma, prejudice and discrimination, minority influence, and intergroup relations to provide diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives on what it means to be a minority. The volume, which focuses on the strategies that minorities use in coping with majorities, is organized into three sections: 'Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for Who You Are'; 'Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for What You Think and Do'; and 'Coping with Inclusion'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. On being the target of prejudice: educational implications / Michael Inzlicht, Joshua Aronson, and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton --
2. To climb or not to climb? When minorities stick to the floor / Margarita Sanchez-Mazas and Annalisa Casini --
3. Managing the message: using social influence and attitude change strategies to confront interpersonal discrimination / Janet Swim [and others] --
4. A new representation of minorities as victims / Serge Moscovici and Juan Perez --
5. Marginalization through social ostracism: effects of being ignored and excluded / Kipling D. Williams and Adrienne Carter-Sowell --
6. Delinquents as a minority group: accidental tourists in forbidden territory or voluntary emigrées? / Nicholas Emler --
7. Minority group identification: responses to discrimination when group membership is controllable / Jolanda Jetten and Nyla R. Branscombe --
8. Coping with stigmatization: smokers' reactions to antismoking campaigns / Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor [and others] --
9. Terrorism as a tactic of minority influence / Xiaoyan Chen and Arie W. Kruglanski --
10. The stigma of racist activism / Kathleen M. Blee --
11. Why groups fall apart: a social psychological model of the schismatic process / Fabio Sani --
12. Multiple identities and the paradox of social inclusion / Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers --
13. Pro-minority policies and cultural change: a dilemma for minorities / Angelica Mucchi-Faina --
14. Influence without credit: how successful minorities respond to social cyptomnesia / Fabrizio Butera, John Levine, and Jean-Pierre Vernet --
15. Influence and its aftermath: motives for agreement among minorities and majorities / Radmila Prislin and P. Niels Christensen.

Society consists of numerous interconnected, interacting, and interdependent groups, which differ in power and status. The consequences of belonging to a more powerful, higher-status 'majority' versus a less powerful, lower-status 'minority' can be profound, and the tensions that arise between these groups are the root of society's most difficult problems. To understand the origins of these problems and develop solutions for them, it is necessary to understand the dynamics of majority-minority relations. This volume brings together leading scholars in the fields of stigma, prejudice and discrimination, minority influence, and intergroup relations to provide diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives on what it means to be a minority. The volume, which focuses on the strategies that minorities use in coping with majorities, is organized into three sections: 'Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for Who You Are'; 'Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for What You Think and Do'; and 'Coping with Inclusion'.

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