Product Description

Featuring chapters on traditional prejudice topics such as categorization and stereotypes, sexism, racism, and social stigma, Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is a wide-ranging textbook that covers the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of prejudice attached to all forms of inequality. Mixed in with this content are further chapters that explore newer and more nontraditional diversity topics, such as sexual-orientation and social class-based prejudice, weight and appearance-based prejudice, and diversity on television.

A number of student-friendly features appear in this text, including:

- `Diversity Issue' boxes, spotlighted in each chapter, centre around recent issues, or research findings related to prejudice or social stigma.

- `Making Connections' questions interspersed throughout chapters stop readers and encourage them to think more deeply about issues/ concepts just covered.

- Summaries, Key Terms in the text and at the beginning of chapters, Further Readings and interesting Websites are also all included.

Understanding the Psychology of Diversity is the perfect textbook for courses on the Psychology of Diversity, Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination as well as Race and Gender. (20071008)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #558221 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"The author fulfills his goal, providing a highly readable overview of the challenging and often landmark research done in psychology to illuminate how processes operate on the cultural, social, organizational group, and individual levels to affect people's lives...Overall the textbook is challenging and should stimulate readers, particularly those undergraduates interested in pursuing careers in the field of psychology" -CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY (Annie Lee Jones CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOLOGY )

About the Author
Bruce E. Blaine is an Associate Professor of Psychology at St John Fisher College and is widely published in the field of social psychology on issues of cultural diversity, racism, and prejudice.