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The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We have witnessed the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism across the globe.
Edited by Phillip L. Hammack, The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice reorients social psychology toward the study of social injustice in real-world settings. The volume's contributing authors effectively span the borders between cultures and disciplines to better highlight new and emerging critical paradigms that interrogate the very real consequences of social injustice.
United in their belief in the possibility of liberation from oppression, with this Handbook, Hammack and his contributors offer a stirring blueprint for a new, important kind of social psychology today.
List of contents
- Part I: Psychology and Social Justice: Historical, Theoretical, and Conceptual Foundations
- Chapter 1: Social Psychology and Social Justice: Critical Principles and Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
- Phillip L. Hammack
- Chapter 2: Social Justice Theory and Practice: Fostering Inclusion in Exclusionary Contexts
- Susan Opotow
- Part II: Critical Ontologies, Paradigms, and Methods
- Chapter 3: Reconsidering Citizenship Models and the Case for Cultural Citizenship: Implications for a Social Psychology of Social Justice
- Regina Langhout and Jesica Fernández
- Chapter 4: Narrative Approaches within a Social Psychology of Social Justice: The Potential Utility of Narrative Evidence
- David M. Frost
- Part III: Race, Ethnicity, Inequality
- Chapter 5: Extending the Social Psychology of Racism and Moral Exclusion: A Framework for Critical Analysis
- Cristian Tileaga
- Chapter 6: The Ongoing Colonization of North American Indigenous People: Using Social Psychological Theories to Promote Social Justice
- Stephanie Fryberg, Rebecca Covarrubias, and Jacob A. Burack
- Chapter 7: Disjunctive: Social Justice, Black Identity, and the Normality of Black People
- William E. Cross, Jr.
- Chapter 8: Culture, Psychology, and Social Justice: Toward a More Critical Psychology of Asians and Asian Americans
- Sumie Okazaki
- Chapter 9: Intersectional Understandings of Inequality
- Aída Hurtado
- Part IV: Gender, Sexuality, Inequality
- Chapter 10: "Who is Tossing Whom into the Current?" A Social Justice Perspective on Gender and Well-Being
- Abigail J. Stewart and Alyssa N. Zucker
- Chapter 11: Transnational Feminism in Psychology: Women's Human Rights, Liberation and Social Justice
- Shelly Grabe
- Chapter 12: Benevolent Heterosexism and the "Less-than-Queer" Citizen Subject
- Darren Langdridge
- Part V: Class, Poverty, Inequality
- Chapter 13: Of "Takers" and "Makers": A Social Psychological Analysis of Class and Classism
- Heather E. Bullock and Harmony A. Reppond
- Chapter 14: Social Class Oppression as Social Exclusion: A Relational Perspective
- Amelia Dean Walker and Laura Smith
- Part VI: Globalization, Conflict, Inequality
- Chapter 15: Colonization, Decolonization, and Power: Ruptures and Critical Junctures Out of Dominance
- James H. Liu and Felicia Pratto
- Chapter 16: Social Psychology and Social Justice: Citizenship and Migrant Identity in the Post 9/11 Era
- Sunil Bhatia
About the author
Phillip L. Hammack is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Politics, Culture & Identity Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Trained as an interdisciplinary social scientist at the University of Chicago, he uses multiple methods to study the lived experience of social injustice and the relationship between self and society. His current research examines sexual and gender identity diversity in social and political context.
Summary
The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but it also saw the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the 21st century, however, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We have witnessed the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism across the globe.
Edited by Phillip L. Hammack, The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice reorients social psychology toward the study of social injustice in real-world settings. The volume's contributing authors effectively span the borders between cultures and disciplines to better highlight new and emerging critical paradigms that interrogate the very real consequences of social injustice.
United in their belief in the possibility of liberation from oppression, with this Handbook, Hammack and his contributors offer a stirring blueprint for a new, important kind of social psychology today.
