183 research outputs found
Social Psychology [Australia and New Zealand edition]
No full textSocial psychology, its theories, research methods, and basic findings, are even more relevant in these challenging times. Kassin has always connected these core concepts of social psychology with real world applications with a current-events emphasis. This first Australian and New Zealand edition, adapted from the 9th edition of Social Psychology by Kassin, Fein and Markus, strengthens these connections from the outside world into the field of social psychology and student's everyday lives. Coverage of culture and diversity is integrated into every chapter by Hazel Rose Markus and the local author team
DOING RACE: 21 ESSAYS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
No full textPreface -- Doing race: an introduction / Paula M.L. Moya and Hazel Rose Markus -- Pt. 1. Inventing race and ethnicity -- 1. Defining race and ethnicity: the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Census / C. Matthew Snipp -- 2. Models of American ethnic relations: hierarchy, assimilation, and pluralism / George M. Fredrickson -- 3. The biology of ancestry: DNA, genomic variation, and race / Marcus W. Feldman -- 4. Which differences make a difference? Race, DNA, and health / Barbara A. Koenig -- Pt. 2. Racing difference -- 5. The Jew as the original "other": difference, Antisemitism, and race / Aron Rodrigue -- 6. Knowing the "other": Arabs, Islam, and the west / Joel Beinin -- 7. Eternally foreign: Asian Americans, history, and race / Gordon H. Chang -- 8. A thoroughly modern concept: ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the state / Norman M. Naimark -- Pt. 3. Institutionalizing difference -- 9. Race in the news: stereotypes, political campaigns, and market-based journalism / Shanto Iyengar -- 10. Going back to Compton: real estate, racial politics, and black-brown relations / Albert M. Camarillo -- 11. Structured for failure: race, resources, and student achievement / Linda Darling-Hammond -- 12. Racialized mass incarceration: poverty, prejudice, and punishment / Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson -- Pt. 4. Racing identity -- 13. Who am I? Race, ethnicity, and identity / Hazel Rose Markus -- 14. In the air between us: stereotypes, identity, and achievement / Claude M. Steele -- 15. Ways of being white: privilege, perceived stigma, and transcendence / Monica McDermott -- 16. Enduring racial associations: African Americans, crime, and animal imagery / Jennifer L. Eberhardt -- 17. We're honoring you, dude: myths, mascots, and American Indians / Stephanie A. Fryberg and Alisha Watts -- Pt. 5. Re-presenting reality -- 18. Another way to be: women of color, literature, and myth / Paula M.L. Moya -- 19. Hiphop and race: blackness, language, and creativity / Marcyliena Morgan and Dawn-Elissa Fischer -- 20. The "ethno-ambiguo hostility syndrome": mixed-race, identity, and popular culture / Michele Elam -- 21. We wear the mask: performance, social dramas, and race / Harry J. Elam Jr. -- Credits -- Inde
American selves: Understanding the roles of agency and communion.
No full textWhat is the nature of the American self in the 1990s? What domains or areas of life do individuals in this country focus on as being central or core to their self-concepts? In this dissertation, I address these questions, with particular attention to the role the two forces of agency (a desire to be separate and to achieve individual goals and desires) vs. communion (a motivation to merge with others and to foster close relationships) play within the self-concepts of American respondents. In examining the self-concepts of a representative sample of 1471 individuals in the metropolitan Detroit area, a surprisingly strong emphasis on communal aspects of the self was discovered, given theoretical emphasis on the primarily agentic nature of the American self. This emphasis on communal aspects of the self was equally strong in all sociocultural groups. Upon further investigation, though, these communal aspects of the self did not seem strongly related to other aspects of respondents' lives. Although communal aspects of the self were related to positive outcomes in the domain of close relationships, positive outcomes in nine other life domains and in overall well-being were more closely tied to agentic aspects of the self. It is possible that individuals must fulfill the cultural mandate by emphasizing agentic aspects of their self-concepts in order to achieve well-being in American society. However, it is also possible that researchers lack the vocabulary and the tools to assess the less goal-oriented well-being which may be associated with communal aspects of the self.PhDPsychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/104313/1/9513373.pdfDescription of 9513373.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
Chronicles of Oklahoma
No full textArticle describes the life of the author traveling into the Oklahoma frontier and settling the small community of Catesby. F. P. Rose's grandmother, Ella M. Rose, established the sod store that would become an important maker on the homesteader trail. F. P. Rose also lists the pioneers who settled Catesby's vicinity
Ethnic stigma as a contextual experience: A focus on possible selves.
No full textEarlier research conceptualized stigma as self-hatred experienced across contexts. In contrast, this dissertation conceptualizes stigma as an experience evoked in social contexts in which one expects to possibly suffer a discrediting judgment. Results of Study One showed that when the interpersonal context was unspecified, college students of color did not view themselves any more negatively than European-American students. However, two experimental studies demonstrated that envisioning particular contexts may evoke expectations of feeling stigmatized in those contexts. Students of color and European-American students envisioned interacting with a teaching assistant (TA) of either the same or different ethnic background. In the first experiment, students' role relative to the TA was manipulated so that students believed (a) they were to evaluate the TA (dominant role) or (b) the TA was to evaluate them (subordinate role). It was expected that students of color would envision less positive possible selves when in a subordinate role to a European-American instructor than when in a subordinate to a same ethnicity TA, dominant position in general or European-American students in all conditions. Students of color were not sensitive to the role manipulation. There was a modest trend for European-American students to envision interacting more positively when subordinate to a same ethnicity TA or dominant to a different ethnicity TA. In the third study length of interaction with the prospective TA was manipulated so that students envisioned either a one-time interaction or a semester-long interaction. Length of the interaction was used as a proxy for the interaction's consequentialness. It was expected that students of color would have less positive possible selves when envisioning semester-long interaction with a European-American TA than when envisioning interaction with a same ethnicity TA or one-time interaction with a same ethnicity TA. When students of color envisioned interacting with a same ethnicity TA for a semester, they had a more positive set of possible selves than when they envisioned semester-long interaction with a European-American TA or one-time interaction in general. In contrast, when they envisioned semester-long interaction with a European-American TA, they envisioned a less positive set of possible selves than semester-long interaction with a same ethnicity TA or one-time interaction in general. Together these studies suggest that stigma does not reside in the self-concept but is a product of the social context.PhDPsychologySocial psychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/129175/2/9409640.pd
American = Independent?
No full textU.S. American cultures and psyches reflect and promote independence. Devos and Banaji (2005) asked, does American equal White? This article asks, does American equal independent? The answer is that when compared to people in East Asian or South Asian contexts, people in American contexts tend to show an independent psychological signature—a sense of self as individual, separate, influencing others and the world, free from influence, and equal to, if not better than, others (Markus & Conner, 2013). Independence is a reasonable description of the selves of people in the White, middle-class American mainstream. Yet it is a less good characterization of the selves of the majority of Americans who are working-class and/or people of color. A cultural psychological approach reveals that much of North American psychology is still grounded in an independent model of the self and, as such, neglects social contexts and the psychologies of a majority of Americans. Given the prominence of independence in American ideas and institutions, the interdependent tendencies that arise from intersections of national culture with social class, race, and ethnicity go unrecognized and are often misunderstood and stigmatized. This unseen clash of independence and interdependence is a significant factor in many challenges, including those of education, employment, health, immigration, criminal justice, and political polarization.</jats:p
Cross-cultural studies ofamae interactions in American and Japanese adults: Constructing relational models and testing the hypothesis of universality.
No full textThis study was designed to explore a Japanese concept, amae, which Doi (1971) proposed as a key concept for the understanding of Japanese interdependence and as a universal need for being-loved. The purpose of this thesis was: (1) To describe and analyze the concept of amae and actual amae interactions and to construct models of amae interactions, and (2) to test Doi's hypothesis of cross-cultural generality. In Study 1, Japanese adults and college students were asked about amae interactions, to depict their own experience, to describe good and bad aspects, and to define amae. In Analysis 1, conceptions of amae and amae interactions were examined and further contrasted with those of dependency. It was revealed that important features of amae interactions include mutual communication and having jibun (self). Analysis 2 revealed that good aspects of amae interactions were that they made relationships close in terms of initiation and maintenance, and they made A (amae engager) and B (amae acceptor) feel happy and self-worthy; as for bad aspects, amae interactions were considered detrimental to A in personality, motivational, attitudinal, and emotional domains. Finally, in Analysis 3 (analysis of actual amae interactions), 8 crucial components were examined in detail, based upon the process models of amae interactions (presented in Figures 1-1 and 1-2). Overall, 13 components of amae interactions were examined and discussed in relation to these models. In Study 2, American and Japanese college students were asked in a questionnaire to rate 5 vignettes of amae interactions for estimated occurrence, positiveness, social acceptability, and for aspects indicative of their possession of schemas that can deal with amae. Main findings were: (a) Americans reported that they had engaged in similar amae interactions more often than Japanese, suggesting cross-cultural generality of amae. (b) Relative to Japanese, Americans regarded amae interactions as more positive or negative depending on the vignettes, while they rated social acceptability the same. (c) Americans predicted that when A's expectations were rejected by B, A would get more upset than Japanese, indicating the possibility of Americans' possessing some sort of schemas for amae interactions.PhDPsychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/104635/1/9542870.pdfDescription of 9542870.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
Unresolved issues of self-representation
No full textThe seven papers included in this volume converge in many of their assumptions about the representation of the self, yet a number of issues remain unresolved. These issues, including the structure and functioning of self-representations, and the role of negativity, affect, and the “other” in the self-system, are discussed here.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/44334/1/10608_2005_Article_BF01176212.pd
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