This provocative book challenges conventional thinking that stereotypes are always inaccurate, exaggerated, and generally destructive by daring to look at stereotyping empirically. The chapters provide insights into how stereotyping may help us manage information without necessa…
This book brings together the latest empirical and theoretical findings in social identity and social categorization, providing an invaluable overview of this important field. A broad range of psychosocial phenomena are explored.
Social identity: international perspectives
This book brings together the latest empirical and theoretical findings in social identity and social categorization, providing an invaluable overview of this important field. A broad range of psychosocial phenomena are explored.
Explores how a cultural clash between traditional Pharaonic and latter-day Ptolemaic Egypt is used to mirror the Roman civil war.
4e de couverture: Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when th…
La 4e de couv. indique : "The idea of the "mamma italiana" is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy. This figure makes frequent appearances in jokes and other forms of popular culture, bu…