Description
Book SynopsisUsing vivid examples of both historical and current events, acclaimed scholar Thomas Pettigrew’s compelling book advocates for a robust contextual social psychology, maintaining that far more attention should be paid to the social context of various phenomena relevant in the world today. The volume traces the author''s 65-year career, and offers a contextual, three-level approach for studying and theorizing about a variety of social psychological phenomena, combining cultural, situational, and personality levels of analysis.
Each chapter illustrates concepts important to the field and provides insight into its advantages, applying these analyses to critical topics such as prejudice, far-right voting patterns, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact. The book describes milestones in establishing a theoretically and methodologically sound contextual approach, including major statistical advances that have made this research easier to conduct, mo
Table of ContentsDedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. A Personal Quest
Chapter 2. What Is Contextual Social Psychology?
Chapter 3. Five Advantages of Contextual Analyses For Social Psychology
Chapter 4. Statistical Advances Enable and Encourage Contextual Analyses in Social Psychology
Chapter 5. Applying Contextual Analyses to Intergroup Prejudice
Chapter 6. Applying Contextual Analysis to Relative Deprivation
Chapter 7. Applying Contextual Analysis to Intergroup Contact
Chapter 8. Applying Contextual Analysis to Far-Right Voting Patterns
Chapter 9. Looking Ahead
References
Index
About the Author
