The Psychology of Legitimacy
Subtitle: Emerging Perspectives on Ideology, Justice, and Intergroup Relations
Contributors: John T. Jost (Editor); Brenda Major (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780521781602
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Social, group or collective psychology; Social Psychology; Psychology; Stereotype (Psychology); Social Stratification; General; Sociology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Intergroup relations; Legitimacy of governments; Rationalization (Psychology); Stereotypes (Social psychology)
First sentence: With this book, we are proud to present what we see as the best research currently being conducted in a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field seeking to understand processes of legitimation in social relations.