Reconceptualizing 'extremism' and 'moderation': From categories of analysis to categories of practice in the construction of collective identity

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-113

  Hopkins, Nick ^a   Kahani Hopkins, Vered ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COMMUNICATION; CULTURE; HUMANS; ISLAM; POLITICS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 64749092821     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466608X284425     Document Type: Article

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