Responding to Membership of a Low-Status Group: The Effects of Stability, Permeability and Individual Ability

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-62

  Boen, Filip ^a   Vanbeselaere, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

collective behavior; intergroup dynamics; social identity; social mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993813856     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430200031003     Document Type: Article

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