1st Edition

The Nature of Prejudice Society, discrimination and moral exclusion

By Cristian Tileagă Copyright 2016
    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    184 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book offers a critical synthesis of social psychology’s contribution to the study of contemporary racism, and proposes a critical reframing of our understanding of prejudice in European society today. Chapters place a special emphasis on the diversity and intensity of prejudices against Romani people in a liberal, progressive, decent, enlarged Europe. Chapters ask how we can reconcile the European creed of law, justice and freedom for all, with social and political practices that exclude and degrade Romani people.

    This volume addresses the need for a deeper recognition of societal foundations of ideologies of moral exclusion, and calls for a closer and more thorough investigation of prejudices that stem from the societal transformation, diminution or denial of moral worth of human beings (and the various conditions and contexts that create and promote it). By opening new intellectual dialogues, the book reinvigorates a renewed social psychology of racism, and creates a broader foundation for the exploration of the various, active paradoxes at the heart of the social expression of prejudice in liberal democracies.

    The Nature of Prejudice is essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in both the quantitative and qualitative study of discrimination, inequality and social exclusion.

    1. From antipathy to indignity: a framework for critical analysis  2. Stereotypes, new racism and the changing nature of marginality in Europe  3. Personality and racism as predisposition  4. Social categorization and contexts of social identity  5. The discourse of prejudice: racism as discursive ideology  6. Beyond stereotypes: moral transgression and being ‘out of place’  7. Dehumanization and moral exclusion  8. Towards a critical social psychology of racism

    Biography

    Cristian Tileagă is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and member of the Discourse and Rhetoric Group at Loughborough University, UK.

    "Using the example of the Roma (or Gypsies) in Europe, Cristian Tileagă in The Nature of Prejudice: Soceity, Discrimination and Moral Exclusion not only successfully challenges psychologists to incorporate societal and cultural perspectives and approaches in analyses of prejudice but also presents a wide-ranging analysis of prejudice as moral devaluation that gives discourse analysis a central, defensible role. A new framework is developed of prejudice as the personal, social, and cultural means by which dignity and worth are denied to particular groups of 'others'. It should appeal to advanced students and researchers in social psychology who recognize the value of exploring old problems from new interdisciplinary perspectives... The range of theoretical and empirical material Tileagă engages with in the book is impressive and well balanced. The argument is compelling and the analysis overcomes many of the traditional biases and barriers in psychology to rigorous and innovative affective, discursive, social, and cultural analysis. This is an important contribution to the ilterature on prejudice from a European perspective, which has valuable lessons for researchers from other parts of the world and neighboring discplines such as sociology and anthropology." - Gavin Brent Sullivan, PsycCritiques