528 Pages
by
Routledge
528 Pages
by
Routledge
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Reflecting the many contributions of Muzafer Sherif to social psychology during the past thirty years, this volume presents selections from among Sherif's most widely known essays and provides a systematic overview of his evolving interests, concepts, methods and research findings. Twenty-five essays are divided into five sections according to content; the theoretical and methodological problems... Read more
Introduction; I: Interdisciplinary Relations and Methodology; One: If Basic Research is To have Bearing on Actualities . . .; Two: Social Psychology, Anthropology, and The “Behavioral Sciences”; Three: Social Psychology: Problems and Trends in Interdisciplinary Relationships; Four: The “Institutional” vs. “Behavioral” Controversy in Social Science, with Special Reference to Political Science; Five: Analysis of The Social Situation; II: Experimental Models for Social Interaction; Six: Some Social Factors in Perception: The Orientation; Seven: Formation of Social Norms: The Experimental Paradigm; Eight: Differential Influence: Process Underlying Social Attitude; Nine: The Psychology of Slogans; Ten: Conformity-Deviation, Norms, and Group Relations; Eleven: A Study in Ego Functioning: Elimination of Stable Anchorages in Individual and Group Relations; III: The Self and Reference Groups; Twelve: The Self and Reference Groups: Meeting Ground of Individual and Group Approaches; Thirteen: The Problem of Inconsistency in Intergroup Relations; Fourteen: The Adolescent in His Group in Its Setting; Fourteen: The Adolescent in His Group in its Setting; IV: Concepts, Attitudes, and Ego-Involvement; Fifteen: Some Social-Psychological Aspects of Conceptual Functioning; Sixteen: Some Needed Concepts in The Study of Attitudes: Latitudes of Acceptance, Rejection, and Noncommitment; Seventeen: The Social Judgment-Involvement Approach to Attitude and Attitude Change; Eighteen: The Own Categories Procedure in Attitude Research; V: Experimental and Field Research: Man in In-Group and Intergroup Relations; Nineteen: The Necessity of Considering Current Issues as Part and Parcel of Persistent Major Problems; Twenty: Integrating Field Work and Laboratory in Small Group Research; Twenty-One Experimental Study of Intergroup Relations; Twenty-Two Approach, Hypotheses, and General Design of Intergroup Experiments; Twenty-Three Superordinate Goals in The Reduction of Intergroup Conflict; Twenty-Four Creative Alternatives to A Deadly Showdown; Twenty-Five Conflict and Cooperation Between Functionally Related Groups
Biography
Muzafer Sherif
