"This ground-breaking volume presents a unique contribution to the development of social and political psychology both in Turkey and globally, providing a complex analysis of intergroup relations in the diverse Turkish context.
Turkey is home to a huge variety of social, ethnic and religious groups and hosts the largest number of refugees in the world. This diversity creates a unique opportunity to understand how powerful forces of ethnicity, migration and political ideology shape intergroup processes and intergroup relations. Bringing together novel research findings, the international collection of authors explore everything from disability, age and gender, Kurdish and Armenian relations as ""traditional minorities"", the recent emergence of a ""new minority"" of Syrian refugees and Turkey’s complex political history. The theories and paradigms considered in the book – social identity, intergroup contact, integrated threat, social representations – are leading approaches in social and political psychology, but the research presented tests these approaches in the context of a very diverse and dynamic non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) society, with the goal of contributing toward the development of a more intercultural and democratic social and political psychology.
Bringing together cutting-edge research and providing important insights into the psychological underpinnings of a singular societal situation from a variety of perspectives, this book is essential reading for students studying the psychology, politics and social science of intergroup relations, as well as practitioners interested in conflict resolution."
Edited by:
Hüseyin Çakal,
Shenel Husnu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 875g
ISBN: 9781032022284
ISBN 10: 1032022280
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of Contributors Acknowledegments Editor’s Introduction Part I: Intergroup Relations: The Traditional Minorities 1 Fathoming Forgiveness: Armenians and Turks in Turkey 2 Perceptions of Discrimination and Social Contact among Alevis and Sunnis in Turkey: Findings from Two Field Studies 3 Disability and Discrimination: Microaggression Experiences of People with Disabilities in Turkey 4 How Does Culture Relate to Benevolent and Hostile Sexism? 5 Young People’s Attitudes toward Old People: Prejudices, Stereotypes, Inter-group Evaluations, and Frequency of Contact 6 Missing the Good Old Days or Connecting to the Globe: Investigating Outgroup Attitudes through Collective Nostalgia and Global Identification Part II: Intergroup Relations: The New Minorities 7 Acculturation and Adaptation of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Role of (Dis)Concordance of Acculturation Orientations and Identity Threat 8 Acceptance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey: The Roles of Perceived Threat, Intergroup Contact, Perceived Similarity, and Temporary Settlement 9 Identities and Attitudes Toward Syrian Refugees in Turkey 10 ""Syrian"" Refugees at the Gaze of Kurds and Arabs in Mardin: Understanding Social Representations and Acculturation Expectations from a Decolonial Approach 11 Extended Contact with Turks and Syrian Refugees’ Intention to Migrate: The Mediating Roles of Ingroup and Outgroup Identification 12 Intergroup Contact Among Majority and Minority Status Groups in Turkey: Extending Theory and Practice Part III: Intergroup Relations and Political Culture 13 The Social Representations of Peace and Attitudes towards Human Rights in Turkey 14 Military Coups, States of Emergency and Their Effects on Political Culture and National Identity in Turkey 15 Routes to Collective Action Among Opposition Voters: Testing Efficacy, Anger and Injustice in Turkey’s Repeated Elections 16 Collective Action and in Turkey: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next? 17 Conclusion Index"
Dr Hüseyin Çakal is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at Keele University in the United Kingdom. His work has covered the dynamics of collective action and prejudice reduction strategies, effects of social identity and intergroup contact on health and intergroup emotions among advantaged and disadvantaged groups. He has a passion for policy-oriented research on extremely disadvantaged communities in the least accessed regions, for example, South East Asia, Latin America and in the Middle East. Dr Shenel Husnu is a Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. She is a trainer of peace education for Turkish and Greek school children which promotes contact and cooperation between both communities. Shenel’s research interests include intergroup relations, gender and LGBTI+ issues. She has a number of publications in prejudice reduction techniques and their application to the Cyprus conflict.
