Racial and Cultural Minorities:: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination (Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services)
An academic study that organizes prejudice and discrimination against racial and cultural minorities as a problem that cuts across social structures. It analyzes how bias develops and persists across institutions such as the economy, politics, religion, and education.
Work Information
A foundational study for understanding prejudice as a social structure rather than a matter of personal feeling.
Published by Springer as a revised edition, this book stands as a comprehensive study of prejudice and discrimination within institutions and group relations. The authors argue that discrimination cannot be reduced without understanding the causes and consequences of bias, and they extend that discussion across the economy, politics, religion, and education.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Springer
- Published
- 2008-06-09
- Pages
- 512 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 18.9 x 2.95 x 24.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780306417771
- ISBN-10
- 0306417774
- Price
- 15872 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Health, Fitness & Dieting/Psychology & Counseling/Personality
We need scarcely note that the topic of this book is the stuff of headlines. Around the world, political, economic, educational, military, religious, and social relations of every variety have a racial or ethnic component. One cannot begin to understand the history or contemporary situation of the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Great Britain, Lebanon, Mexico, Canada-indeed, almost any land-without careful attention to the influence of cultural and racial divisions. Preparation of this new edition has brought a strong sense of deja vu, with regard both to the persistence of old patterns of discrimination, even if in new guises, and also to the persistence of limited and constraining explanations. We have also found, however, rich new empirical studies, new theoretical perspectives, and greatly expanded activity and analyses from members of minority groups. Although this edition is an extensive revision, with reference both to the data used and the theoretical approaches examined, we have not shifted from our basically analytical perspective. We strongly support efforts to reduce discrimination and prejudice; but these can be successful only if we try to understand where we are and what forces are creating the existing situation. We hope to reduce the tendency to use declarations and condem nations of other persons' actions as substitutes for an investigation of their causes and consequences.
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