Overview
- Illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Addresses the social meanings of threats in the context of terrorism, nationalism, migrants and refugees and diversity as challenges for contemporary societies
- Promotes cooperation and dialogue on risks and threats in society, between the human and social sciences
- Brings together internationally distinguished and influential authors from different disciplines on psychological, social, religious, historical and political factors of threats
Part of the book series: Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research (FSSR, volume 3)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Thinking Threats: Opening Views on Phenomena and Social Processes
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Building Threats: Cultures, Groups, and Identities
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Confronting Threats in the Public Sphere: Refusal, Change, Action
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Keywords
- Social Meanings of Threats
- Social Psychological Processes Creating Threat from Risk
- Notion of Threat in the Public Sphere
- Collective Emotional Experiences on Threats
- Global Terrorism
- Migrants and Refugees as Threats
- Disclosure of Minority Groups
- Intimate Relationships and the AIDS Threat
- Risk and Threats of Climate Change
- Threats of Financial Technology
- Controlling Threats
- Potentialization of Threats
- Environmental Threats for Society
- Coping with Threats in the Public Sphere
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jorge Vala, PhD in Social Psychology, is an Emeritus Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS)/University of Lisbon. Jorge Vala is a former Director of the Institute for Social Sciences from the University of Lisbon and he was the National Coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESFRI). At ICS, his research focus on socio-cognitive processes, namely in the field of social representations and ideologies, social norms and social identities. His present projects articulate these processes with the study of racism and prejudice, migration issues, social threats, political attitudes, social justice, and validation of everyday knowledge.
Ewa Drozda-Senkowska, is Professor of Social Psychology in the University of Paris where she has been the Director of the Laboratory of Social Psychology and where she was the Director of the Institute of Psychology. She created a laboratory for the study of social threats at its University. She has coordinated several works on collective irrationalities, the pitfalls of reasoning and psychology of anticipation. She authored several books, chapters and scientific papers focusing on group behaviour and, the more recent ones, on social threats.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Societies Under Threat
Book Subtitle: A Pluri-Disciplinary Approach
Editors: Denise Jodelet, Jorge Vala, Ewa Drozda-Senkowska
Series Title: Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39315-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39314-4Published: 20 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39317-5Published: 20 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39315-1Published: 18 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-3424
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3432
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 220
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Political Science, Anthropology