Stigmatization, Tolerance and Repair: An Integrative Psychological Analysis of Responses to Deviance

by Willem Koomen and Anton J. M. Dijker

Book Overview

Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity. In our evolutionary past, these emotions adaptively motivated the repair of interpersonal relationships, whereas more recently they may also result in other types of social control such as stigmatization or tolerance. Dijker...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521793688
• ISBN13: 9780521793681
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"