Prejudice and Discrimination in Europe - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405188839 ISBN 13: 9781405188838

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

All papers concentrate on empirical findings throughout Europe as well as cross-national comparisons. This research reveals both consistent patterns and intriguing differences across countries.

• New research data from Western and Eastern European surveys and experiments
  
• New theoretical conceptualizations of prejudice
  
• Multi-disciplinary approaches
  
• Debate on policy making with reference to non European countries

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Prejudice and discrimination against a variety of groups are critical measures of the civil state of societies. The issue demonstrates that the rejection of ethnic and social groups is approaching dangerously high levels in both Western and Eastern Europe. All papers concentrate on empirical findings throughout Europe as well as cross-national comparisons. This research reveals both consistent patterns and intriguing differences across countries. The studies test for differences between traditional prejudices, such as anti-Semitism, and prejudices against the new immigrants and other target groups. This focus allows comparisons between Eastern and Western European patterns of prejudice as well as between Europe, North America and other areas of the world. The issue proposes diverse perspectives, theoretical approaches, levels of analysis, and topics for policy making.

About the Author:

Andreas Zick received his Ph.D. at the University of Marburg in 1996, worked from 1998 to 2003 as Assistant Professor at the University of Wuppertal, from 2004 to 2006 at the University of Bielefeld. From 2006 until now he headed the departments for social psychology at the Unversities of Dresden and Jena. Recently he received a call to become professor at the University of Bielefeld. His research interests include migration as well as studies on prejudice, racism, and discrimination in Europe; right-wing extremism; social dominance and the self-concept in social identity.

Thomas F. Pettigrew is Research Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University (1956) and taught there until 1980. From 1986 until 1991, he taught at the University of Amsterdam. Pettigrew has published ten books and more than 200 articles and reviews on prejudice and racism. He also received the Society for Experimental Social Psychology’s Distinguished Scientist Award (2001), a Senior Fellowship at the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University (2001), and a Fulbright New Century Scholar Fellowship for continued research on prejudice and discrimination against the immigrants of Western Europe (2003).

Ulrich Wagner is Professor of Social Psychology and vice-director of the Center for Conflict Studies at Philipps-University Marburg in Germany. Dr Wagner’s research interests include intergroup relations, ethnic prejudice, and intergroup aggression. Wagner heads the special graduate school addressing Group Focused Enmity, sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [German Science Foundation]. During the academic year 2003-2004, he was a Senior Fellow at the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405188839
• ISBN 13: 9781405188838
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Zick Andreas, Pettigrew Thomas F., Wagner Ulrich, Hoyle Rick H.