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

• Pubblicazione: Mahwah, NJ, : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
• Disciplina: 305/.01
• Soggetto topico: Stigma (Social psychology); Self-perception; Social role
• Altri autori: LevinShana <1968-> Van LaarColette
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Stigma and group inequality
• ISBN: 1-135-70526-7; 1-135-70527-5; 1-282-37559-8; 9786612375590; 1-4106-1705-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817755003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Claremont Symposium on Applied Social Psychology Series