Title: The outsider
Description: "The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analysis to upend many of our assumptions about prejudice. Noting that hostility toward immigrants has been on the rise throughout Western Europe, Paul Sniderman and his team conduct the first study of prejudice in Italy and offer insights applicable to nearly all countries worldwide.".

"The study of prejudice has been stimulated, but also limited, by the development of competing partial theories. Prejudice and group conflict are said to be rooted in the psychological makeup of individuals, or alternatively, to spring from real competition over material goods or social status, or yet again, to follow in the wake of a quest for identity.

But the principal proponents of each theory have insisted that just so far as their approach is right, then at least one of the others must be wrong, or at most of marginal importance. It is the distinctive effort of The Outsider to develop a unified theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Emigration and immigration, Race relations, Culture conflict, Social conditions, Racism, Ethnic relations, International Relations - General, Politics - Current Events, Politics/International Relations, Political Science, Politics / Current Events, Italy, Discrimination & Racism, Emigration & Immigration, Political Science / International Relations, Political Science and International Relations, Political science & theory, Public opinion & polls, Racism & racial discrimination, Social research & statistics, Sociology, Italy, politics and government, Italy, social conditions
Places: Italy
Time periods: 1976-1994, 1994-