ABSTRACT
Reflecting the many contributions of Muzafer Sherif to social psychology during the past thirty years, this volume presents selections from among Sherif's most widely known essays and provides a systematic overview of his evolving interests, concepts, methods and research findings. Twenty-five essays are divided into five sections according to content; the theoretical and methodological problems at the heart of Sherif's work; the experimental model for interaction process and products; problems of self and reference groups; concepts, attitudes and ego-involvements; and contributions to problems of in-group and intergroup relations through experimental and field research. Though the selections range over a broad spectrum each is characterized by the precise and incisive work techniques Sherif devised as well as by its intrinsic relevance to significant issues. Sherif writes to clarify theory, to define conceptual tools, and to use tools and theory to demonstrate the substantive results of his researches. Each research finding is added to its predecessors as the author advances to his goal of a social psychology that is consistent as it moves from the most basic psychological processes to the complexities of individual involvement in collective activity
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |26 pages
Introduction
part |2 pages
Part I: INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONS AND METHODOLOGY
chapter |11 pages
If Basic Research Is To Have Bearing on Actualities
chapter |8 pages
Social Psychology, Anthropology, and the "Behavioral Sciences"
chapter |6 pages
Analysis of the Social Situation
part |2 pages
Part II: EXPERIMENTAL MODELS FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION
chapter |11 pages
Some Social Factors in Perception: The Orientation
chapter |13 pages
Formation of Social Norms: The Experimental Paradigm
chapter |5 pages
Differential Influence: Process underlying Social Attitude
chapter |10 pages
The Psychology of Slogans
chapter |26 pages
Conformity-Deviation, Norms, and Group Relations
part |2 pages
Part III: THE SELF AND REFERENCE GROUPS
chapter |7 pages
The Problem of Inconsistency in Intergroup Relations
chapter |64 pages
The Adolescent in His Group in Its Setting
part |2 pages
Part IV: CONCEPTS, ATTITUDES, AND EGO-INVOLVEMENT
chapter |17 pages
Some Social-Psychological Aspects of Conceptual Functioning
chapter |14 pages
The Own Categories Procedure in Attitude Research
part |2 pages
Part V: EXPERIMENTAL AND FIELD RESEARCH: MAN IN IN-GROUP AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS