Editors:
- The first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality
- Demonstrates what a focus on psychological mechanisms can do for advancing the discipline
- Draws on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research (HSSR)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Orienting Perspectives and Concepts
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Front Matter
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Creating, Reproducing, and Resisting Inequality
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Front Matter
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Contexts of Inequality
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About this book
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality for a graduate student and professional audience. Drawing on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology, its chapters demonstrate the relevance of social psychological processes to this central sociological concern. Each chapter in the volume has a distinct substantive focus, but the chapters will also share common emphases on: • The unique contributions of sociological social psychology • The historical roots of social psychological concepts and theories in classic sociological writings • The complementary and conflicting insights that derive from different social psychological traditions in sociology. This Handbook is of interest to graduate students preparing for careers in social psychology or in inequality, professional sociologists and university/college libraries.
Keywords
- Categorization and Intersectionality
- Construction of Social Differences
- Creating Inequality with Language and Talk
- Double Standards and Emotions
- Gender Inequality
- Health Inequalities in the United States
- Ideology and Social Inequalities
- Inequality and Families
- Inequality and Social Connections
- Power and Resource Inequality
- Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality
- Self and Identity
- Sexual Identities and Social Psychology
- Social Inequality in Crime and Deviance
- Social Inequality in Schools
- Social Justice and Interpersonal Influence
- Social Movements and Social Inequality
- Social Organization of Age
- Social Psychology of Inequality
Editors and Affiliations
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Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Jane D. McLeod
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Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Edward J. Lawler
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Corolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Michael Schwalbe
About the editors
Jane D. McLeod is Associate Dean for Social and Historical Sciences and Graduate Education and Professor of Sociology, at Indiana University. Her research considers health as both cause and consequence of inequality with special attention to life course considerations. She has co-edited two other volumes for Springer: Mental Health, Social Mirror (with William R. Avison and Bernice A. Pescosolido) and the Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness and Healing (with Bernice A. Pescosolido, Jack K. Martin, and Anne Rogers). She also co-edited The Sociology of Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Reader (with Eric R. Wright) for Oxford University Press. In 2014, she received the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health from the Mental Health section of the American Sociological Association.
Michael Schwalbe received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1984 from Washington State University. His research and writinghave focused on how self-concept formation and identity work are implicated in the reproduction of inequality. His books include Unlocking the Iron Cage: The Men’s Movement, Gender Politics and American Culture; The Sociologically Examined Life; Remembering Reet and Shine: Two Black Men, One Struggle; Rigging the Game: How Inequality Is Reproduced in Everyday Life; and, most recently, Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination. He is currently professor of sociology at North Carolina State University.
Edward J. Lawler is the Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His teaching and research areas are group processes, exchange, power, negotiation and the sociology of emotion. He has co-authored three books and edited or co-edited the annual series, Advances in Group Processes. In 2001, he received the Cooley-Mead Award for career achievement from
the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association and in 2003 his paper, “An Affect Theory of Social Exchange” won the 2002 Theory Prize from the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. His most recent book (coauthored with Shane Thye and Jeongkoo Yoon), Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World (2009), won the 2010 James Coleman Best Book Award from the Rationality and Society Section of the American Sociological Association. He served as Editor of Social Psychology Quarterly from 1992-96.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality
Editors: Jane D. McLeod, Edward J. Lawler, Michael Schwalbe
Series Title: Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9002-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Sciences + Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9001-7Published: 19 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7348-5Published: 20 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9002-4Published: 18 August 2014
Series ISSN: 1389-6903
Series E-ISSN: 2542-839X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 749
Topics: Sociology, general, Psychological Methods/Evaluation