The Nature Of Prejudice

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Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1979-01-22
Publisher(s): BASIC BOOKS
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Summary

With profound insight into the complexities of the human experience, Harvard psychologist Gordon Allport organized a mass of research to produce a landmark study on the roots and nature of prejudice. First published in 1954,The Nature of Prejudiceremains the standard work on discrimination. Now this classic study is offered in a special unabridged edition with a new introduction by Kenneth Clark of Columbia University and a new preface by Thomas Pettigrew of Harvard University.Allport's comprehensive and penetrating work examines all aspects of this age-old problem: its roots in individual and social psychology, its varieties of expression, its impact on the individuals and communities. He explores all kinds of prejudice-racial, religious, ethnic, economic and sexual-and offers suggestions for reducing the devastating effects of discrimination.The additional material by Clark and Pettigrew updates the social-psychological research in prejudice and attests to the enduring values of Allport's original theories and insights.

Author Biography

Gordon W. Allport was born in 1897 in Montezuma, Indiana. He received his A.B., A.M., and Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, did postgraduate work abroad, and returned to Harvard in 1930, where he served as professor of psychology until his death in 1967. During his lifetime, Allport served as president of both the American and Eastern Psychological Associations, director of the National Opinion Research Center, and editor of the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. His other books included The Psychology of Rumor, The Individual and His Religion, Personality, and Becoming.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. ix
Forewordp. xiii
Preface to the 1954 Editionp. xv
Preface to the 1958 Editionp. xxi
What is the Problem?p. 3
the Normality of Prejudgmentp. 17
Formation of In-Groupsp. 29
Rejection of Out-Groupsp. 48
Patterning and Extent of Prejudicep. 68
p. 85
Racial and Ethnic Differencesp. 107
Visibility and Strangenessp. 129
p. 142
the Cognitive Processp. 165
Linguistic Factorsp. 178
Stereotypes in Our Culturep. 189
Theories of Prejudicep. 206
Social Structure and Cultural Patternp. 221
Choice of Scapegoatsp. 243
the Effect of Contactp. 261
Conformingp. 285
p. 297
p. 312
p. 326
p. 343
p. 354
p. 367
p. 382
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p. 425
p. 444
p. 461
p. 479
p. 501
Index of Namesp. 520
Index of Subjectsp. 526
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