Human Groups and Social Categories
Studies in Social Psychology

This volume reconciles some of Henri Tajfel's disparate studies on the social psychology of the relations and conflicts between social groups.

Henri Tajfel (Author)

9780521280730, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 23 April 1981

384 pages
23 x 15.3 x 3 cm, 0.6 kg

First published in 1981, this volume presents studies on the social psychology of the relations and conflicts between social groups. Henri Tajfel played a central role in the development of social psychology in Europe, both in his own research and in his sponsorship of other European research. He has been particularly influential through his publications on various aspects of inter-group behaviour and a good deal of what he has written remains dispersed in a large number of different publications. This book presents a synthesis of some of this work, edited and structured to demonstrate its continuity and its cumulative importance. The book will be indispensable for social psychologists and should interest a wide range of political and social scientists.

Acknowledgements
Foreword Jerome S. Bruner
1. The development of a perspective
Part I. Social Psychology and Social Processes: Introduction
2. Experiments in a vacuum
3. Individuals and groups ion social psychology
Part II. From Perceptual Judgement to Social Stereotypes: Introduction
4. The importance of exagerrating
5. Differences and similarities: some contexts of judgement
6. Cognitive aspects of prejudice
7. Social stereotypes and social groups
Part III. Insiders and Outsiders: Introduction
8. The experience of prejudice
9. The beginnings of ethnocentrism
10. Children's international perspectives
Part IV. Intergroup Conflict: Introduction
11. The attributes of intergroup behaviour
12. Social categorization, social identity and social comparison
13. The achievement of group differentiation
14. Exit and voice in intergroup relations
15. The social psychology of minorities
References
Indices.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]