The Social Dimension: Volume 2
European Developments in Social Psychology

Henri Tajfel (Edited by)

9780521283878, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 24 May 1984

388 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.565 kg

The two volumes of The Social Dimension present a comprehensive survey of the major developments in social psychology which took place in Europe during the very active 1970s and 1980s. They aim to capture the diversity and vitality of the discipline, stress the growing emphasis on fully social analyses of social psychological phenomena - hence 'the social dimension' - and to provide a valuable resource for researchers in the future. Although comprehensive in scope, the volumes are not written in the formal style of a reference handbook. Instead, the authors of the thirty-three chapters, drawn from more than a dozen mainly European countries and all experts in their own fields, were invited to present their own personal overviews of the issues in social psychology on which they were actively working. Both volumes are organized into three main Parts. Volume 1 is concerned with the social development of the child, interpersonal communication and relationships, and the social reality, group processes, and intergroup relations. This ambitious enterprise has produced a distinctive yet authoritative summary and evaluation of the growth points of social psychology in Europe which will interest and influence not only social psychologists but many readers from related disciplines.

Contributors
Part IV. Representations of Social Reality: 18. Attitudes in a social context J. Richard Eiser and Joop van der Pligt
19. Social dimensions of attribution Miles Hewstone and Joseph M. F. Jaspars
20. The historical dimension of social psychology: the case of unemployment Peter Kelvin
21. Rationality and social control in orthodox systems Jean-Pierre Deconchy
22. Political ideology: social psychological aspects Michael Billig
Part V. Group Processes: 23. Social groups, nonsense groups and group polarization Colin Fraser and Donald Foster
24. The influence of minorities: ten years later Gabriel Mugny
25. Social identification and psychological group formation John C. Turner
Part VI. Intergroup Relations: 26. The social psychology of intergroup relations and categorical differentiation Jean-Claude Deschamps
27. Intergroup differences in group perceptions Ad F. M. van Knippenberg
28. The individual and social functions of sex role stereotypes Carmen Huici
29. The role of similarity in intergroup relations Rupert J. Brown
30. Social psychology and political economy Sik Hung Ng
31. Intergroup and interpersonal dimensions of bargaining and negotiation G. M. Stephenson
32. Second language acquisition: the intergroup theory with catastrophic dimensions Peter Ball, Howard Giles and Miles Hewstone
33. Intergroup relations, social myths and social justice in social psychology Henri Tajfel
Subject index
Author index.

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