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The nature of The Nature of Prejudice
Author(s) -
Cherry Frances
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(200023)36:4<489::aid-jhbs13>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , context (archaeology) , social psychology , psychology , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , history , archaeology
This paper attempts to establish the historical context for the development and publication of Gordon Allport's text, The Nature of Prejudice, and by so doing illustrate the importance of historicizing psychological social psychology. The Nature of Prejudice was, in part, the cumulative result of a decade of Gordon Allport's classroom teaching in a new interdisciplinary unit at Harvard, the Department of Social Relations. This paper chronicles key elements of Allport's course —“Prejudice and Intergroup Conflict”—from 1944 to the mid‐1950s. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.