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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822172603321

Autore

McGarty Craig

Titolo

Categorization in social psychology [[electronic resource]. /] / Craig McGarty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1999

ISBN

0-7619-5954-8

1-283-88104-7

1-84860-895-0

0-585-34523-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 293 p.) : ill

Disciplina

302.1

Soggetti

Categorization (Psychology)

Social perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I - Cognitive and Social Psychological Approaches to Categorization; Chapter 1 - Some Starting Assumptions: Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus; Chapter 2 - Categorization and Cognition I: Introducing Category Function and Structure; Chapter 3 - Categorization and Cognition II: Category Learning, Formation and Use; Chapter 4 - The Categorization Process in Social Psychology: Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation; Chapter 5 - Categorization as Meaning Creation I: Self-Categorization Theory and some Other Developments

Chapter 6 - Categorization as Meaning Creation II: Other Sense-Making ApproachesChapter 7 - Contrasting Perspectives on Motivated Relative Perception; Part II - Some Explorations in Social Categorization; Chapter 8 - Group Variability and Consistency; Chapter 9 - The Constraints of the Social Context on Categorization; Chapter 10 - Categorization, Covariation and Causal Explanation; Chapter 11 - Conclusion: Categorization as Explanation; References; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is a wide-ranging and up-to-date introduction to all the major approaches to categorisation in social psychology including biased



stimulus processing, construct activation self-categorisation, and social judgeability.