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Overcoming Oppression: Awakening the Sense of Injustice: Additional Resources
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Festinger, L. "A Theory of Social Comparison Processes." American Psychologist 16, 1954. Tocqueville, A. de. L'Ancien Regime. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1947. Edelman, P. Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Acquiescence.. Chicago: Markham, 1971. Runciman, W.C. Relative Deprivation and Social Justice. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. Crosby, F. Relative Deprivation and Working Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982. "This study was designed to apply the theory of relative deprivation to the situation of working women and to describe how women experience and express contentment or dissatisfaction with their working conditions. The study compared groups of housewives and employed women and men in high and low prestige occupations to assess felt deprivation and evaluate six hypothesized cognitive emotional preconditions for resentment or expressed discontent." -Murray Research Center Pettigrew, T. Social Evaluation Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. Tajfel, H. Social Identity and Intergroup Behavior. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Freud, A. The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense. London: Hogarth, 1937. Deutsch, Morton. The Resolution of Conflict: Constructive and Destructive Processes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, September 1, 1973. This work provides a set of theoretical essays and research papers that deal with the nature of conflict and discuss various strategies for resolving conflict. Coming from the point of view of social psychology, the author focuses heavily on the concepts of cooperation, competition, and trust. Primary Link
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Gurr, T.R. Why Men Rebel. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1970. |
