Identity and cultural diversity
Subtitle: what social psychology can teach us
By: Maykel Verkuyten
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781848721203; 9781848721210; 9780203710142
Subjects: Soziale Identität; Cultural assimilation; Immigrants; Gruppenidentität; Group identity; Emigration and immigration; Einwanderer; Multiculturalism; Cultural pluralism; Social aspects; Interpersonale Wahrnehmung; Ethnic relations; Society; Sozialpsychologie; Nationalism; Ethnicity
Description: "Identity and Cultural Diversity examines immigration and its effect on diversity from a social psychological perspective. Immigration increases cultural diversity and raises difficult questions of belonging, adaptation, and the unity of societies: questions of identity may be felt by people struggling with the basic problem of who they are and where they fit in, and although cultural diversity can enrich communities and societies it also sometimes leads to a new tribalism, which threatens democracy and social cohesion. The author Maykel Verkuyten considers how people give meaning to the fact that they belong to ethnic, racial, religious and national groups, and the implications this can have for social cohesion."--Publisher website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-269) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The quest for identity and solidarity; title: A jellyfish on the beach: about identity; title: Ethnic discrimination and social validation; title: Identity development and duality; title: Blue and brown eyes; title: Multicultural recognition; title: A shared sense of 'we'; title: Conclusion: a way forward.