20 contact hours

Methods of Assessment and Weighting

Components of Assessment	Method(s)	Percentage weighting
Coursework	5 mini-reports on the five workshops (1000 words each) due the week after the workshop.	50%
Coursework	Research proposal (2500 words) related to a specific session, due end of semester.	50%

None

1. To guide students through the complexities of research crafting, enabling them to generate research questions in an inductive or deductive way and develop the appropriate tools to investigate them

2. To enable students to link theoretical and empirical questions to social issues and to provide them with an in-depth understanding of the practical applications and action implications of social psychological theories and empirical findings

3. To provide students with the opportunity to work as a team to produce research projects enabling them to develop the appropriate interpersonal skills to achieve collaborative research

To train students to carry out research ethically and maintain appropriate standards of conduct

1. To guide students through the complexities of research crafting, enabling them to generate research questions in an inductive or deductive way and develop the appropriate tools to investigate them

2. To enable students to link theoretical and empirical questions to social issues and to provide them with an in-depth understanding of the practical applications and action implications of social psychological theories and empirical findings

3. To provide students with the opportunity to work as a team to produce research projects enabling them to develop the appropriate interpersonal skills to achieve collaborative research

To train students to carry out research ethically and maintain appropriate standards of conduct

Week 1: Introduction to the module (informal meeting with the course director and the facilitators)
Week 2: Workshop 1: Stigmatised (socially risky) identities
Week 3: Reading Week
Week 4: Workshop 2: The social psychological dynamics of cultural relativism
Week 5: Reading Week
Week 6: Workshop 3: The development of national, ethnic and racial identities
Week 7: Reading Week
Week 8: Workshop 4: Risk perception and communication
Week 9: Workshop 5: Prejudice
Week 10: Reading Week

Lectures and workshops

Aboud, F. (1988) Children and Prejudice. Oxford : Blackwell.

Allport, G. (1954) The Nature of Prejudice.  Cambridge, MA : Perseus Books, 3-79.

Billig, M. (1991) The concept of ‘prejudice’.  In Ideology and Opinions.  London : Sage, 122-141.

Breakwell, G.M. (1986) Coping with Threatened Identities. London: Methuen .

Breakwell, G.M. & Lyons, E. (eds) (1996) Changing European Identities: Social Psychological Analyses of Social Change. Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann.

Capozza, D. & Brown, R. (eds) (2000) Social Identity Processes. Trends in Theory and Research. London : Sage.

Connolly, P. (1998) Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children. London : Routledge.

Fischoff, B. et al. (1981) Acceptable Risk. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Flick, U. (ed) (1998) The Psychology of the Social. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Goffman, E. (1963) Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Herek, G.M. (ed) (1998) Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice Against Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage.

Hill, J.E. (1999) Language, race, and white public space.  American Anthropologist, 100, 680-689.

Hirschfeld, L.A. (1996) Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture and the Child’s Construction of Human Kinds. Cambridge , Mass: MIT Press.

Hopkins, N., Reicher, S., & Levine, M. (1997) On the parallels between social cognition and the ‘new racism’.  British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 305-329.

Lofstedt, R.E. (ed) (1998) The Earthscan Reader in Risk and Modern Society. London : Earthscan.

Moscovici, S. (2000) Social Representations. Explorations in Social Psychology. Cambridge : Polity Press.

Rosaldo, R. (1989).  Introduction: Grief and a headhunter’s race.  In Culture and Truth.  Boston , Ma: Beacon Press.

Swim, J.K. & Stangor, C. (eds) (1998) Prejudice. The Target’s perspective. San Diego : Academic Press.