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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457917803321

Titolo

Stigma and group inequality : social psychological perspectives / / [edited by] Shana Levin, Colette van Laar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J. : , : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, , 2006

ISBN

1-135-70527-5

1-282-37559-8

9786612375590

1-4106-1705-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series

Altri autori (Persone)

LevinShana <1968->

Van LaarColette

Disciplina

305/.01

Soggetti

Stigma (Social psychology)

Self-perception

Social role

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Proceedings of a symposium held in the spring of 2004 in Claremont, California.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 The Experience of Stigma: Individual, Interpersonal, and Situational Influences; PART I CONFRONTING, CONCEALING, AND COPING: RESPONSES TO STIGMA; CHAPTER 2 Social Psychological Perspectives on Coping With Stressors Related to Stigma; CHAPTER 3 Dominant Ideology Threat and the Interpersonal Consequences of Attributions to Discrimination; CHAPTER 4 Silence Is Not Golden: The Intrapersonal Consequences of Not Confronting Prejudice; CHAPTER 5 Concealable Versus Conspicuous Stigmatized Identities

CHAPTER 6 Responding to Everyday Discrimination: A Synthesis of Research on Goal-Directed, Self-Regulatory Coping BehaviorsPART II STIGMA IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT: COPING WITH THREATENING ENVIRONMENTS; CHAPTER 7 How Environments Can Threaten Academic Performance, Self-Knowledge, and Sense of Belonging; CHAPTER 8 Mechanisms for Coping With Status-Based Rejection Expectations;



CHAPTER 9 Stigma and Intergroup Contact Among Members of Minority and Majority Status Groups; CHAPTER 10 New Perspectives on Stigma and Psychological Well-Being; PART III STIGMA AND THE SOCIAL BASIS OF THE SELF

CHAPTER 11 Understanding Stigma From the Perspective of the Self-Expansion ModelCHAPTER 12 The Interpersonal Basis of Self-Stereotyping; CHAPTER 13 Stigma and Shame: Emotional Responses to the Stereotypic Actions of One's Ethnic Ingroup; CHAPTER 14 Stigma and the Social Basis of the Self: A Synthesis; About the Authors; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a snapshot of the latest theoretical and empirical work on social psychological approaches to stigma and group inequality. It focuses on the perspective of the stigmatized groups and discusses the effects of the stigma on the individual, the interacting partners, the groups to which they belong, and the relations between the groups.Broken into three major sections, Stigma and Group Inequality:*discusses the tradeoffs that stigmatized individuals must contend with as they weigh the benefits derived from a particular response to stigma against the costs asso