Fourth year students in psychology and social work from two South African universities worked together across boundaries of race and class in a course which required them to engage in a personal reflexive way with issues of community and identity. A combination of face-to-face workshops and online tutorial groups was used. The course was demanding…

Four large organizations, two each from the private and public sectors of the Northern Ireland economy, were selected for this study which, first, explored the effects of religion-based workforce difference on intergroup relationships, second, investigated the contribution of organizational sector to communicative differences, and third, gauged…

Background: How best to serve a racially and ethnically diverse student body has been a topic of intensive theory development for the past 30 or 40 years. We have strong theoretical models regarding the need for and practice of multicultural education, the goals of which include both increased educational achievement for students of color and…

Filling a significant gap in the literature, this book examines the impact of culture on the social behaviors, emotions, and relationships of children around the world. It also explores cultural differences in what is seen as adaptive or maladaptive development. Eminent scholars discuss major theoretical perspectives on culture and development and…

PRESENTED IS A WIDERANGING DISCUSSION OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO EDUCATORS CONCERED WITH IMPROVING INTERGROUP-RELATIONS EDUCATION. AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS ARE AVAILABLE AS WELL AS RECORDINGS AND FILMSTRIPS. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TECHNIQUES SUCH AS ROLE-PLAYING OR THE "RUMOR CLINIC" ARE DESCRIBED. BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND…

Employs a Marxian dialectical methodology regarding the historical role of ethnicity within the context of a capitalist political economy. Provides an example of this perspective by presenting the unity of the subjective and objective elements of what is involved in the decision to be or not to be a Santee. (Author/GC)

It was hypothesized that if status-inconsistency effects were operating, we would observe statistical interaction effects between ethnoreligious group membership and education, and that these interactions would vary as a function of ethnoreligious status. However, data indicated interaction effectsresulted from persistence of subcultural…

Discusses the importance of interaction among participants in conferences. Data on participant interaction must be used to evaluate conferences. Describes one graphic technique for collecting and analyzing this data. (JOW)

Identifies ways to create more interaction between social and counseling psychology. Argues that social and counseling psychology coincide in seven distinct domains: educational, professional, practical, methodological, theoretical, metatheoretical, and epistemological. Makes recommendations regarding ways to develop and strengthen the connections…

Attempts to facilitate a greater confluence between counseling and social psychology with respect to the psychology of emotion. Identifies a series of impediments that may be responsible for curtailing interchange between the two disciplines. Examines professional issues, practical concerns, methodological impediments, theoretical and…

Report of study of how social distance between Whites and Blacks is affected by degree of identification with one's own group and perceived external threat from other group. The results place in question the idea that ingroup integration necessarily leads to outgroup differentiation. However, it was found that the degree of perceived external…

Exploratory ideas about discourse analysis as a method for the collection and analysis of language attitudes are presented. The data for the investigation is a series of group negotiations among female and male speakers from Anglo-Australian and Greek-Australian backgrounds. (23 references) (VWL)

Develops the concept of homegrown stereotypes, a distinct class of in-group stereotypes, locating their origin in self-presentation processes. Discusses the accuracy of these stereotypes and considers their similarities to and differences from various related phenomena. An examination of homegrown stereotypes highlights the importance of…