Categorization in Social Psychology

1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5953-3
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 651 g

Categorization in Social Psychology offers a major introduction to the study of categorization, looking especially at links between categorization in cognitive and social psychology. In a highly readable and accessible style, the author covers all the main approaches to categorization in social psychology that a student might come across, including: biased stimulus processing, construct actviation, self-categorization, explanation-based, social judgeability and assimilation/contrast approaches. It is a wide-ranging and up-to-date treatment of concepts from cognitive as well as social psychology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McGarty, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: COGNITIVE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CATEGORIZATION
Some Starting Assumptions
Perceivers' Perspectives and Social Consensus
Categorization and Cognition I
Introducing Category Function and Structure
Categorizationand Cognition II
Category Learning, Formation and Use
The Categorization Process in Social Psychology I
Biased Stimulus Processing and Knowledge Activation
Categorization as Meaning Creation I
Self-Categorization Theory and Some Other Developments
Categorization as Meaning Creation II
Other Sense-Making Approaches
Contrasting Perspectives on Motivated Relative Perception
PART TWO: SOME EXPLORATIONS IN SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION
Group Variability and Consistency
The Constraints of the Social Context on Categorization
Categorization, Covariation and Causal Explanation
Conclusion
Categorization as Explanation

Über Autor(innen)

McGarty, Craig
Craig McGarty is Professor of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He received his undergraduate training in psychology at the University of Adelaide and his PhD from Macquarie University in 1991 (where he was a tutor from 1985 until 1989). He spent 1990 as a lecturer in social psychology/social interaction at the University of Western Sydney and moved in 1991 to the Australian National University as a research associate. He was Reader and Head of the School of Psychology before moving to Murdoch University in Western Australia as the Director of the Centre for Social and Community Research and then Director of the Social Research Institute. He has worked on a wide range of topics in experimental social psychology, and his current research includes a social audit of the aspirations and solutions of a remote Indigenous community and studies of the reconciliation process in post-genocide Rwanda. His books include Stereotypes as Explanations (with Vincent Yzerbyt and Russell Spears, 2002) and Categorization and Social Psychology (1999).