Social Identity and Intergroup Relations

This study explores the relationship between social groups and their conflicts.

Henri Tajfel (Edited by)

9780521153652, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 June 2010

546 pages
22.6 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.73 kg

This study of intergroup relations remained for long on the periphery of mainstream social psychology. However, fresh research and thinking did much to overcome this neglect of one of the fundamental issues of our time, so that it became a clearly visible and major trend of research within European social psychology. Originally published in 1982, this book represented some of the facets of these developments, and aimed to provoke further discussion of important empirical and theoretical issues. The contributors examine the relations between social groups and their conflicts, the role played in these conflicts by the individuals' affiliation with their groups and the psychological processes responsible for the formation of groups. This book discusses key issues which will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers in social psychology and all related disciplines concerned with a better understanding of social conflict and intergroup attitudes and our social reality.

Contributors
Preface Henri Tajfel
Introduction Henri Tajfel
Part I. The Cognitive Construction of Groups: 1. Towards a cognitive redefinition of the social group John C. Turner
2. The determination of collective behaviour Stephen Reicher
3. Social identity and relations of power between groups Jean-Claude Deschamps
4. Intergroup relations and attribution process Miles Hewstone and J. M. F. Jaspars
Part II. The Dynamics of Interaction Between Groups: Experimental Studies: 5. Perceived illegitimacy and intergroup relations Brian Caddick
6. The battle for acceptance: an investigation into the dynamics of intergroup behaviour Rupert J. Brown and Gordon F. Ross
7. Power and intergroup discrimination Sik Hung Ng
8. Cross-cultural studies of minimal groups: implications for the social identity theory of intergroup relations Margaret Wetherell
9. Individuality and membership in the intergroup system Murray Horwitz and Jacob M. Rabbie
Part III. Contexts of Social Identity: Ethnicity and Social Differentials: 10. Intergroup conflict in Northern Ireland Ed Cairns
11. Problems of identity and social conflict: research on ethnic groups in Italy Dora Capozza, Emiliana Bonaldo and Alba Di Maggio
12. Intergroup relations, ethnic identity and self-evaluation in Indonesia J. M. F. Jaspars and Suwarsih Warnaen
13. The Swedish-speaking Finns: a case study of ethnolinguistic identity Karmela Liebkind
14. Intergroup perceptions in British higher education: a field study Richard Y. Bourhis and Peter Hill
15. Open conflict and the dynamics of intergroup negotiations Claude Louche
Part IV. Conclusion: 16. Instrumentality, identity and social comparisons Henri Tajfel
Subject index
Author index.

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