Perspectives on minority influence
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Perspectives on minority influence
(European studies in social psychology)
Cambridge University Press , Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1985
- : uk
- : fr
- : pbk
Available at 23 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. [239]-251
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How does a minority exert influence on a majority? Traditionally social psychologists have characterised influence as a process leading to conformity - the minority coming to accept the view of the majority. For the contributors to this volume, working in a society where the reverse process is frequently exemplified - a society characterised by change and innovation - such an approach is no longer tenable. They believe that only by examining social processes also in terms of minority influence can the paradox be resolved. The volume is organised into two broadly based but interconnected parts. Part I analyses the process of influence itself, while Part II sets it within the context of groups. The influence of minorities is thus located within the cognitive and social field in which interaction between minorities and majorities occurs. The original and dynamic research paradigms presented here and the theoretical and empirical results that are reported offer alternative insights not only into the phenomenon of influence per se, but also into such classical notions as 'the group' , 'deviance' and 'convergence'.
Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Preface Serge Moscovici
- Part I. The Process of Minority Influence: Introduction Gabriel Mugny
- 1. Innovation and minority influence Serge Moscovici
- 2. Social support and minority influence: the innovation effect reconsidered Machteld Doms and Eddy Van Avermaet
- 3. Compromising public influence for private change Charlan Nemeth
- 4. Conflict and conversion Bernard Personnaz and Michel Guillon
- 5. Rigidity and minority influence: the influence of the social in social influence Stamos Papastamou and Gabriel Mugny
- Part II. Minority Influence in Groups: Introduction Eddy Van Avermaet
- 6. Innovation and socialisation in small groups John M. Levine and Richard L. Moreland
- 7. When and how the minority prevails Harold B. Gerard
- 8. The paradox of 'orthodox minorities': when orthodoxy infallibly fails Jean-Pierre Deconchy
- 9. Conformity, innovation and the psychosocial law Sharon Wolf and Bibb Latane
- 10. Infra-group, intra-group and inter-group: construing levels of organisation in social influence Vernon L. Allen
- References
- Subject index
- Author index.
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