The Social Developmental Construction of Violence and Intergroup Conflict

✍ Scribed by Jorge Vala, Sven Waldzus, Maria Manuela Calheiros (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book describes how the violent dimension of intergroup relations can be better understood if the interplay between psychological and social-developmental factors is taken into account. Ten unique, innovative and original chapters by international scholars of social and developmental psychology address the way how social reality is constructed as a hierarchical order, and how social norms, beliefs and cognitive-behavioral patterns are learned, shared and repeatedly processed on how to uphold or challenge this social order. The volume covers diverse issues such as the effects (or lack thereof) of power and violent video games on people’s thinking and behavior, the acquisition of social norms and attitudes during childhood, minorities’ identity management strategies, the role of mothers’ educational beliefs and the impact of ideologies. This volume is inspired by the oeuvre of Maria Benedicta Monteiro, emphasizing the psychogenetic and sociogenic diacronies that are too often neglected by the predominantly synchronic paradigm of social psychology. It is therefore an indispensable reading for researchers and advanced students in social, community and developmental psychology, for scientifically interested practitioners working with families, school contexts or intergroup conflict, and for everyone interested in the expanding field of the social developmental approaches to attitudes and behaviour.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Power and the Social Self....Pages 3-33
From a Sense of Self to Understanding Relations Between Social Groups....Pages 35-53
Intergroup Relations and Strategies of Minorities....Pages 55-82
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
“Back to the Future:” Ideological Dimensions of Intergroup Relations....Pages 85-104
The Common Ingroup Identity Model and the Development of a Functional Perspective: A Cross-National Collaboration....Pages 105-120
When Beliefs Become Stronger than Norms: Paradoxical Expressions of Intergroup Prejudice....Pages 121-141
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Parent–Child Interactions as a Source of Parent Cognition in the Context of Child Maltreatment....Pages 145-169
The Promotion of Violence by the Mainstream Media of Communication....Pages 171-195
Creating a More Inclusive Society: Social-Developmental Research on Intergroup Relations in Childhood and Adolescence....Pages 197-218
The Multi-Norm Structural Social-Developmental Model of Children’s Intergroup Attitudes: Integrating Intergroup-Loyalty and Outgroup Fairness Norms....Pages 219-246

✦ Subjects

Personality and Social Psychology;Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology;Quality of Life Research;Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology