On being the target of prejudice: educational implications / Michael Inzlicht, Joshua Aronson, and Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton -- To climb or not to climb? When minorities stick to the floor / Margarita Sanchez-Mazas and Annalisa Casini -- Managing the message: using social influence and attitude change strategies to confront interpersonal discrimination / Janet Swim ... [et al.] -- A new representation of minorities as victims / Serge Moscovici and Juan Pérez -- Marginalization through social ostracism: effects of being ignored and excluded / Kipling D. Williams and Adrienne Carter-Sowell -- Delinquents as a minority group: accidental tourists in forbidden territory or voluntary emigrées? / Nicholas Emler -- Minority group identification: responses to discrimination when group membership is controllable / Jolanda Jetten and Nyla R. Branscombe -- Coping with stigmatization: smokers' reactions to antismoking campaigns / Juan Manuel Falomir-Pichastor ... [et al.] -- Terrorism as a tactic of minority influence / Xiaoyan Chen and Arie W. Kruglanski -- The stigma of racist activism / Kathleen M. Blee -- Why groups fall apart: a social psychological model of the schismatic process / Fabio Sani -- Multiple identities and the paradox of social inclusion / Manuela Barreto and Naomi Ellemers -- Pro-minority policies and cultural change: a dilemma for minorities / Angelica Mucchi-Faina -- Influence without credit: how successful minorities respond to social cyptomnesia / Fabrizio Butera, John Levine, and Jean-Pierre Vernet -- Influence and its aftermath: motives for agreement among minorities and majorities / Radmila Prislin and P. Niels Christensen.
Summary:
Society comprises interconnected, interacting, interdependent groups, which differ in power and status. The consequences of belonging to a more powerful, higher-status 'majority' versus a less powerful, lower-status 'minority' can be profound, and the tensions that arise between these groups are the root of society's most difficult problems.
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