When and why social categorization produces inequality (and vice versa)

Human Development

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 328-332

  Bigler, Rebecca S ^a   Patterson, Meagan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Essentialism; Intergroup attitudes; Power; Social groups; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 36849018638     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109834     Document Type: Note

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