Racial Encounter : The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation.

By: Durrheim, KevinContributor(s): Dixon, JohnMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781135648329Subject(s): Intergroup relations -- South Africa | Post-apartheid era -- South Africa | Race relations -- Psychological aspects | Segregation -- Psychological aspects | South Africa -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racial Encounter : The Social Psychology of Contact and DesegregationDDC classification: 305.8 LOC classification: HT1521 .D84Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Racial Encounter The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Section A The contact hypothesis reconsidered -- 2 The contact hypothesis as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- 3 Contact and the 'ecology' of everyday relations -- 4 'You have to be scared when they're in masses': working models of contact in ordinary accounts of 'racial' interaction and avoidance -- Section B Attitudes to desegregation reconsidered -- 5 Attitudes towards desegregation as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- 6 Evaluative practices: a discursive approach to investigating desegregation attitudes -- 7 Lay ontologizing: everyday explanations of segregation and opposition to desegregation -- 8 Group differences in narrating the 'lived experience' of desegregation -- Section C 'Locating' the social psychology of contact and desegregation -- 9 Dislocating identity: desegregation and the transformation of place -- 10 Conclusion: 'racial preferences' and the tenacity of segregation -- Appendix: Methods used in the interviews and observational studies -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of social contact and intimacy.   By examining these emerging processes of intergroup contact in South Africa, and evaluating related evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation. It begins with a critical analysis of the traditional theories and research models used to understand desegregation: the contact hypothesis and race attitude theory. It then analyzes every day discourse about desegregation in South Africa, showing how discourse shapes individuals' conception and management of their changing relationships and acts as a site of ideological resistance to social change. The connection between place, identity and re-creation of racial boundaries emerge as a central theme of this analysis.   This book will be of interest to social psychologists, students of intergroup relations and all those interested in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Intro -- Racial Encounter The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Section A The contact hypothesis reconsidered -- 2 The contact hypothesis as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- 3 Contact and the 'ecology' of everyday relations -- 4 'You have to be scared when they're in masses': working models of contact in ordinary accounts of 'racial' interaction and avoidance -- Section B Attitudes to desegregation reconsidered -- 5 Attitudes towards desegregation as a framework for understanding the social psychology of desegregation -- 6 Evaluative practices: a discursive approach to investigating desegregation attitudes -- 7 Lay ontologizing: everyday explanations of segregation and opposition to desegregation -- 8 Group differences in narrating the 'lived experience' of desegregation -- Section C 'Locating' the social psychology of contact and desegregation -- 9 Dislocating identity: desegregation and the transformation of place -- 10 Conclusion: 'racial preferences' and the tenacity of segregation -- Appendix: Methods used in the interviews and observational studies -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.

The political and legislative changes which took place in South Africa during the 1990s, with the dissolution of apartheid, created a unique set of social conditions. As official policies of segregation were abolished, people of both black and white racial groups began to experience new forms of social contact and intimacy.   By examining these emerging processes of intergroup contact in South Africa, and evaluating related evidence from the US, Racial Encounter offers a social psychological account of desegregation. It begins with a critical analysis of the traditional theories and research models used to understand desegregation: the contact hypothesis and race attitude theory. It then analyzes every day discourse about desegregation in South Africa, showing how discourse shapes individuals' conception and management of their changing relationships and acts as a site of ideological resistance to social change. The connection between place, identity and re-creation of racial boundaries emerge as a central theme of this analysis.   This book will be of interest to social psychologists, students of intergroup relations and all those interested in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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