▪ Abstract Allport specified four conditions for optimal intergroup contact: equal group status
within the situation, common goals, intergroup cooperation and authority support. Varied …

Evaluative processes refer to the operations by which organisms discriminate threatening
from nurturant environments. Low activation of positive and negative evaluative processes …

Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-
by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

Beginning researchers get an overview of qualitative research through a concise look at the
practice of conducting research and the theory and debates that keep qualitative inquiry …

This article asserts that despite the salience of race in US society, as a topic of scholarly
inquiry, it remains untheorized. The article argues for a critical race theoretical perspective in …

The Sixth Edition of William A. Corsaro and Judson G. Everitt′ s groundbreaking text
discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective—providing in-depth …

You see it in every schoolyard: the girls play only with the girls, the boys play only with the
boys. Why? And what do the kids think about this? Breaking with familiar conventions for …

This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing
the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments …

This article provides one example of a method of analyzing qualitative data in an objective
and quantifiable way. Although the application of the method is illustrated in the context of …