Helps students place contemporary conflicts over race, gender, and sexual orientation in context. Comprehensive treatment of subject matter. Familiarizes students with the various theories of prejudice, such as personality-based approaches and developmental aspects. Examinations of prejudice from the target's perspective. Shows students how marginalized individuals react to and cope with prejudice and how it effects their sense of identity and self-worth.
Helps make students aware of factors that give rise to antipathy towards members of certain groups.
Identifies the origins of prejudice, addresses issues of intergroup relations and social identity, and recommends strategies for the reduction of prejudice. Introduction to Prejudice and Discrimination. Racism, Sexism, and Antigay Prejudice. Values and Prejudice. Individual Differences in Prejudice.