Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination in Europe

Number 2
2008. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8883-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zick, Andreas

Pettigrew, Thomas F

Wagner, Ulrich

Hoyle, Rick H

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION.
I Ethnic Prejudice and Discrimination: Andreas Zick, Thomas F. Pettigrew, and Ulrich Wagner.

RESEARCH AND THEORY.

II Everyday Racism as Predictor of Political racism in Flemish Belgium: Jacque Billiet and Hans de Witte.

III More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands: Marcel Coenders, Marcel Lubbers, Peer Scheepers, and Maykel Verkuyten.

IV Black Immigrants in Portugal: Luso-tropicalism and Prejudice: Jorge Vala, Diniz Lopes, and Marcus Lima.

V Post-conflict Reconciliation: Intergroup Forgiveness and Implicit Biases in Northern Ireland: Tania Tam, Miles Hewstone, Jared Kenworthy, Ed Chairns, Claudia Marinetti, Leo Gedens, and Brian Parkinson.

VI Types of Identification and Intergroup Differentiation in the Russian Federation: Anca Minescu, Louk Hagendoorn, and Edwin Poppe.

VII Anti-Semitic Attitudes in Europe - a Comparative Perspective: Werner Bergmann.

VIII The Syndrome of Group-Focused Enmity: The Interrelation of Prejudices Tested with Multiple Cross-Sectional and Panel data: Andreas Zick, Carina Wolf, Beate Küpper, Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt, and Wilhelm Heitmeyer.

IX Relative Deprivation and Intergroup Prejudice: Thomas F. Pettigrew, Oliver Christ, Ulrich Wagner, Roel W. Meertens, Rolf van Dick, and Andreas Zick.

X Prejudice and Group-Related Behavior in Germany: Ulrich Wagner, Oliver Christ, and Thomas F. Pettigrew.

COMMENTARY.

XI Viewing Intergroup Relations in Europe through Allport’s Lens Model of Prejudice: Walter G. Stephan

Über Autor(innen)

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.