The Routledge International Handbook of Discrimination, Prejudice and Stereotyping

333 Pages·2022·12.259 MB·English

by  Cristian Tileagă (editor), Martha Augoustinos (editor), Kevin Durrheim (editor)

THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL
HANDBOOK OF DISCRIMINATION,
PREJUDICE AND STEREOTYPING
This handbook explores prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination primarily as phenomena
embedded in the social organization of societies and connected to structural factors and larger
societal systems. It offers a unique critical and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of con-
temporary manifestations of prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.
New socio-psychological analyses of the most pressing social problems of our age bring into
view future directions of research on prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination oriented to
social change and collective action and that engage with wider systems of norms and discourse.
The editors draw on social psychology, sociology, social policy, clinical psychology, cultural studies
and feminist, antiracist and decolonizing social science to show how social psychology can suc-
cessfully rekindle its intellectual dialogue with kindred social science fields to create broader
foundations for the exploration of the paradoxes at the heart of the social expression of prejudice
in liberal democracies.
This is essential reading for anyone interested in prejudice, discrimination and stereotypes. The
handbook will be of interest to academics and researchers exploring both the quantitative and
qualitative aspects of discrimination, inequality and social exclusion, as well as students under-
taking masters or doctoral studies in social psychology, political psychology and political science.
Cristian Tileagă is Reader in social psychology at Loughborough University, UK.
Martha Augoustinos is Professor of psychology at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Kevin Durrheim is Professor of psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

THE ROUTLEDGE
INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK
OF DISCRIMINATION,
PREJUDICE AND
STEREOTYPING
Edited by
Cristian Tileagă, Martha Augoustinos
and Kevin Durrheim
First published 2022
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CONTENTS
About the editors viii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction 1
1 Towards a new sociological social psychology of prejudice, stereotyping
and discrimination 3
Cristian Tileagă, Martha Augoustinos and Kevin Durrheim
PART I
Prejudice, social structure and social justice 11
2 Beliefs about the interpersonal vs. structural nature of racism
and responses to racial inequality 13
Julian M. Rucker and Jennifer A. Richeson
3 Mental health prejudice, discrimination and epistemic injustice: Moving
beyond stigma and biomedical dominance 26
David J. Harper and Kian Vakili
4 Between hope and dread: Unaccompanied children, discrimination
and the uncertainties of the asylum application process 42
Jack Aldridge Deacon and Jo Aldridge
5 The subtlety of gender stereotypes in the workplace: Current and future
directions for research on the glass cliff 58
Leire Gartzia and Michelle Ryan
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Contents
PART II
Targets of prejudice 73
6 Anti-immigrant prejudice and discrimination in Europe 75
Ulrich Wagner, Patrick F. Kotzur and Maria-Therese Friehs
7 Roma prejudices in the European Union: Responses to structural
inequality 90
Salomea Popoviciu and Cristian Tileagă
8 Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people: Prejudice, stereotyping,
discrimination and social change 104
Elizabeth Peel, Sonja J. Ellis and Damien W. Riggs
9 Anti-muslim sentiments in western societies 118
Maykel Verkuyten
10 Explaining the Jew-hatred: The structure and psychological antecedents
of antisemitic beliefs 136
Michał Bilewicz
PART III
Discrimination, stereotypes and bias in the field 151
11 Discrimination and intergroup contact 153
Katy Greenland
12 Discrimination in education 167
Josephine Cornell and Shose Kessi
13 Stereotypes: In the head, in language and in the wild 184
Kevin Durrheim
14 Implicit bias 197
Iain Walker and Susie Wang
PART IV
Prejudice, intergroup relations and emotions 211
15 Beyond prejudice as antipathy: Understanding kinder, gentler forms
of discrimination 213
John Dixon and Darren Langdridge
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Contents
16 The politics and history of numbers in intergroup relations
and conflict research 231
Philippa Kerr
17 Sentiments of the dispossessed: Emotions of resilience and resistance 244
Colin Wayne Leach and Fouad Bou Zeineddine
PART V
The language of prejudice 259
18 Elite political discourse on refugees and asylum seekers: The language
of social exclusion 261
Katarina Pettersson and Martha Augoustinos
19 Interactional approaches to discrimination and racism in everyday life 273
Jessica S. Robles and Natasha Shrikant
20 Censure and management of racist talk 287
Stephen Gibson
PART VI
Looking to the future 301
21 Future directions of research on prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination 303
Cristian Tileagă, Kevin Durrheim and Martha Augoustinos
Index 311
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ABOUT THE EDITORS
Cristian Tileagă is Reader in social psychology at Loughborough University. He is the author
of several publications on social and political psychology, prejudice and discrimination and
interdisciplinarity. His publications include The Nature of Prejudice: Society, Discrimination and Moral
Exclusion (2015, Routledge), Psychology & History: Interdisciplinary Explorations (2014, Cambridge
University Press, with Jovan Byford) and Discursive Psychology: Classic and Contemporary Issues
(2015, Routledge, with Elizabeth Stokoe).
Martha Augoustinos is Professor of psychology at the University of Adelaide. She has published
widely in the field of social psychology and discourse, in particular on the nature of racial dis-
course in Australia. More recently her work has been extended to analysing public discourse
on asylum seekers and refugees. She is co-author of Social Cognition: An Integrated Introduction
(2nd ed., 2006, Sage) with Iain Walker and Ngaire Donaghue, and co-editor with Kate Reynolds
of Understanding Prejudice, Racism and Social Conflict (2001, Sage).
Kevin Durrheim is Professor of psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He writes
on topics related to racism, segregation and social change. His publications include Qualitative
Studies of Silence (Murray & Durrheim (eds.), 2019, Cambridge), Race Trouble (Durrheim, Mtose,
& Brown, 2011, Lexington Press) and Racial Encounter: The Social Psychology of Contact and
Desegregation (Durrheim & Dixon, 2005, Routledge).
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CONTRIBUTORS
Jo Aldridge is Professor of social policy and criminology at Loughborough University. She is an
internationally renowned expert in deriving impact from participatory research and designing
interventions for vulnerable groups (Aldridge, 2015). Her research on children and families
(Aldridge, 2016) has led to the design of impactful evidence-based responses to policy challenges.
She has contributed research evidence to government committees (including Parliamentary
Select Committees), think tanks and policy makers.
Michał Bilewicz is an Associate Professor of social psychology at the University of Warsaw,
Poland, where he chairs the Center for Research on Prejudice. His research concerns different
aspects of intergroup and human–animal relations. He is also specializing in history-related
intergroup processes, such as post-conflict moral emotions, explanations and representations of
historical events. He served as a member of the Governing Council of the International Society
of Political Psychology and a vice-President of the Polish Social Psychological Society.
Josephine Cornell is a Researcher at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University
of South Africa and the South African Medical Research Council-University of South Africa’s
Masculinity and Health Research Unit. Based on critical social psychology, Josephine’s research
interests include identity, discrimination in higher education, visual methods and protests.
Jack Aldridge Deacon is an ESRC-funded doctoral researcher in the School of Sociology and
Social Policy at the University of Nottingham. PhD is an ethnographic study of unaccompanied
asylum-seeking children’s experiences of the asylum application process in the UK.
John Dixon is Professor of social psychology at the Open University, having previously worked
at Lancaster University, the University of Worcester and the University of Cape Town. A former
editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, his publications include Racial Encounter:
The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation (2005, Routledge), co-authored with Kevin
Durrheim, and Beyond prejudice: Extending the Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict, Inequality
and Social Change (2012, Cambridge University Press), co-edited with Mark Levine. He has also
published numerous research articles on prejudice, intergroup contact and social change.
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