Beyond Prejudice
Extending the Social Psychology of Conflict, Inequality and Social Change

This edited collection of essays re-evaluates the concept of prejudice and attempts to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject.

John Dixon (Edited by), Mark Levine (Edited by)

9780521139625, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 January 2012

346 pages, 7 b/w illus. 1 table
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.55 kg

'In Beyond Prejudice, an eclectic, internationally renowned group of social psychologists interrogate such staples of their discipline as emotional antipathy, implicit bias, stereotype construction and processes of communication and ideology in promoting racism, sexism and dehumanizing treatment in general. All of the authors are asking how we can change hearts, minds and - most important of all - social systems that foster inequality, indifference and hypocrisy. These are vital questions, and the contributors offer thoughtful, valuable answers.' John T. Jost, New York University, and co-editor of Social and Psychological Bases of Ideology and System Justification

The concept of prejudice has profoundly influenced how we have investigated, explained and tried to change intergroup relations of discrimination and inequality. But what has this concept contributed to our knowledge of relations between groups and what has it obscured or misrepresented? How has it expanded or narrowed the horizons of psychological inquiry? How effective or ineffective has it been in guiding our attempts to transform social relations and institutions? In this book, a team of internationally renowned psychologists re-evaluate the concept of prejudice, in an attempt to move beyond conventional approaches to the subject and to help the reader gain a clearer understanding of relations within and between groups. This fresh look at prejudice will appeal to scholars and students of social psychology, sociology, political science and peace studies.

Introduction John Dixon and Mark Levine
Part I. Beyond Prejudice: 1. From perception to mobilization: the shifting paradigm of prejudice Stephen Reicher
2. Prejudice, social identity and social change: resolving the Allportian problematic Katherine J. Reynolds, S. Alexander Haslam and John C. Turner
3. An ambivalent alliance: hostile and benevolent sexism as complementary justifications for gender inequality Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske
4. Prejudice and dehumanization Nick Haslam and Stephen Loughnan
5. Stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination revisited: from William James to W. E. B. Du Bois Stanley O. Gaines, Jr
6. Beyond 'old' and 'new': for a social psychology of racism Samuel Pehrson and Colin Wayne Leach
7. The notion of 'prejudice': some rhetorical and ideological aspects Michael Billig
8. The prejudice problematic Margaret Wetherell
9. Implicit prejudice in mind and interaction Kevin Durrheim
10. Rethinking the prejudice problematic: a collaborative cognition approach Susan Condor and Lia Figgou
Part II. Prejudice and Social Change Revisited: 11. Models of social change in social psychology: collective action or prejudice reduction? Conflict or harmony? Stephen C. Wright and Gamze Baray
12. From attitudes to (in)action: the darker side of 'we' John F. Dovidio, Tamar Saguy, Samuel L. Gaertner and Erin L. Thomas
13. Contact and social change in an ongoing asymmetrical conflict: four social-psychological models of reconciliation-aimed planned encounters between Israeli Jews and Palestinians Ifat Maoz
14. From prejudice to collective action Clifford Stott, John Drury and Stephen Reicher
Conclusions and future directions: the nature, significance and inherent limitations of the concept of prejudice in social psychology John Dixon and Mark Levine.

Subject Areas: Political science & theory [JPA], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Sociology [JHB], Social discrimination & inequality [JFFJ], Peace studies & conflict resolution [GTJ]