Understanding the psychology of diversity / Bruce Evan Blaine
Imprint
Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, c2013
Edition
2nd ed.
Descript
xvi, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Introduction to the psychology of diversity -- Categories and stereotypes: cognitive processes that shape diversity -- Stereotypes expressed: social processes that shape diveristy -- Prejudice: evaluating social difference -- Understanding race, racial stereotypes, and racism -- Understanding gender stereotypes and sexism -- Understanding obesity stereotypes and weightism -- Understanding moral prejudice: classism and homosexism -- Understanding age stereotypes and ageism -- Social stigma: the experience of prejudice -- Coping with social stigma -- Responding to social inequality : behavioral and cognitive interventions for reducing prejudice