Coping with Minority Status
Responses to Exclusion and Inclusion

Analyzes the strategies that minorities use in coping with majorities.

Fabrizio Butera (Edited by), John M. Levine (Edited by)

9780521854993, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 August 2009

368 pages, 24 b/w illus. 2 tables
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.6 kg

"...Employing social psychological precepts from a minority rather than the conventional majority point of view, editors Butera (Univ. of Lausanne) and Levine (Univ. of Pittsburgh) present a captivating rendition of minority experience in this anthology... provide novel insights on intransigent problems, including terrorism... Must reading in group relations and minority studies... Highly recommended..."
– G. Parangimalil, Texas A&M University--Texarkana, CHOICE

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'.

Introduction Fabrizio Butera and John M. Levine
Part I. Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for Who You Are: 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, Sarah Gervais, Nicholas Pearson, and Charles Stangor
4. A new representation of minorities as victims Serge Moscovici and Juan Pérez
5. Marginalization through social ostracism: effects of being ignored and excluded Kipling Williams and Adrienne Carter-Sowell
Part II. Coping with Exclusion: Being Excluded for What You Think and Do: 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 Branscombe
8. Coping with stigmatization: smokers' reactions to antismoking campaigns Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor, Armand Chatard, Gabriel Mugny, and Alain Quiamzade
9. Terrorism as a tactic of minority influence Xiaoyan Chen and Arie Kruglanski
10. The stigma of racist activism Kathleen Blee
11. Why groups fall apart: a social psychological model of the schismatic process Fabio Sani
Part III. Coping with Inclusion: 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 Niels Christensen.

Subject Areas: The self, ego, identity, personality [JMS], Sociology: customs & traditions [JHBT]