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Children and Social Exclusion

Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity
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Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity explores the origins of prejudice and the emergence of morality to explain why children include some and exclude others. Formulates an original theory about children’s experiences with exclusion and how they understand the world of discrimination based on group membership Brings together Social Domain Theory and Social Identity Theory to explain how children view exclusion that often results in prejudice, and inclusion that reflects social justice and morality Presents new research data consisting of in-depth interviews from childhood to late adolescence, observational findings with peer groups, and experimental paradigms that test how children understand group dynamics and social norms, and show either group bias or morality Illustrates data with direct quotes from children along with diagrams depicting their social understanding Presents new insights about the origins of prejudice and group bias, as well as morality and fairness, drawn from extensive original data

Author Biography:

Melanie Killen is Professor of Human Development, Professorof Psychology (Affiliate), and Associate Director for the Centerfor Children, Relationships, and Culture at the University ofMaryland. She is a Fellow of both the American PsychologicalAssociation and the Association for Psychological Science. She isalso a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award by theProvost from the University of Maryland. Her book with Dan Hart, Morality in Everyday Life: Developmental Perspectives(1995), received the outstanding book award from AERA, and her bookwith Sheri Levy, Intergroup Attitudes and Relations fromChildhood to Adulthood, received an Honorable Mention for theOtto Klineberg Memorial Prize from SPSSI. Her research examines thedevelopment of morality, intergroup attitudes, exclusion andinclusion, peer relationships, prejudice, culture, and how socialexperience is related to social-cognitive development. Adam Rutland is Professor of Developmental Psychology atthe Child Development Unit and Centre for the Study of GroupProcesses in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent.Previously he has been a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow atthe University of Surrey and been a member of Faculty at theUniversity of Aberdeen. His research examines the development ofchildren's prejudice and social identities. He has conducted recentresearch into when and how children learn to self-present theirexplicit attitudes; how intergroup contact can reduce children'sprejudice; children's exclusion of peers within groups andacculturation amongst ethnic minority children.
Release date Australia
April 18th, 2011
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
246
Dimensions
160x236x20
ISBN-13
9781405176514
Product ID
10058666

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