Cultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology

Cultural Diversity: Its Social Psychology shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and multiculturalism.

• Shows how social psychology can contribute to contemporary debates about immigration and cultural diversity.
• Helps readers to understand the processes that have shaped modern societies and the diversity issues they are facing.
• Reviews research into the socio-psychological factors facilitating or hindering the emergence of plural societies.
• Focuses on intergroup relationships – what happens when people migrate, how they adapt, and what changes are produced by their presence.
• The issues discussed are contextualised within the traditional accounts of the nation-state, European integration and North American and Australian experiences.
• Student-friendly features include boxes, summaries, lists of key words, suggestions for further reading and a glossary.