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Culture and conflict
Liber Amicorum for Louk Hagendoorn

(A book written by friends for Louk Hagendoorn)
by Edwin Poppe and Maykel Verkuyten (eds.)

‘Culture and conflict’ are the central themes in the long academic career of Louk Hagendoorn. His fascination for culture and his interest in group relations has resulted in many articles and books. He has written about cultural differences and Asian cultures and about relations and conflicts between groups in the Netherlands, (Eastern) Europe and the former Soviet Union. His comparative work is rich in context and content and has supported an emerging understanding that prejudice is not indiscriminate and totally irrational but that context and content matter. His research has been one of the major attempts to incorporate a contextual and experimental approach of interethnic relations from the laboratory of social psychologists into large-scale survey research in ethnically diverse and divided societies. This book reflects his interest in ‘culture and conflict’ and contains chapters written by leading international scholars from countries such as the Netherlands, Hungary, Russia and the United States. The different contributions address key questions of cultural differences and group conflicts that bear directly upon contemporary and hotly-debated issues in multicultural societies.

This book is directly available through the publisher: Aksant

Table of content:

Preface i
Part one: Cultures
1 The Fragility of Responsibility
Aafke Komter
1
2 Mistakes and Their Consequences. Why Impunity in Cambodia is Here to Stay
Roger Henke
15
3 The Way of the Samurai is Death. An Extended Critique on the Decadence and Materialism of Modern Japan
Gerrit-Bartus Dielissen
43
4 Between Two Worlds. The Discrepant Roles of Secret Agents of Past Regimes
George Csepeli
69
5 The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Paul Sniderman
75
Part two: Relationships
6 Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination on the Dutch Labour Market: Exogenous or Endogenous?
Justus Veenman
83
7 What do People Think about Ethnic Minorities? A Reality Check for Research
Maykel Verkuyten
105
8 Cultures, Conflict and Crying…
Wilma Volleberg and Gonneke Stevens
125
9 When Ways of Life Collide: A Minority Perspective
Karen Phalet and Merove Gijsberts
141
10 Support in Asymmetric Social Dilemma: A Behavioural Game-theoretic Approach.
Jeroen Weesie, Vincent Buskens, Sonja Vogt and Werner Raub
155
Part three: Conflict in context
11 Rising Demands and Growing Frustrations. Mutual Perception and Value Change in Multi-ethnic Rotterdam since ‘9/11’.
Han Entzinger
183
12 Behaviour and Attitude. Effect of Attitude on Behavioural Desire with Respect to Foreign Countries and Peoples and Germany and Germans in Particular.
Henk Dekker, Bob Dijkgraaf and Frits Meijerink
197
13 From a Distance. Avoidance of Social Contacts with Immigrants in the European Union
Marcel Coenders, Marcel Lubbers and Peer Scheepers
217
14 A Bottum-up View of Equal Opportunities for Roma
Antal Örkeny
245
15 Are Minority Rights Beneficial for Inter-Ethnic Relations? The Impact of Political Ideologies and Group Position in Russia
Anca Minescu
263
16 Ethnic Identity and Stereotypes among Social Groups in the Former Soviet Union
Pierangelo Peri and Enzo Loner
291
17 Will Russians Come Back to Russia?
Sergei Tumanov and Alexander Gashparishvili
305
18 A Hotspot of Intergroup Relations: Russians and Tuvans in Tuva
Edwin Poppe
325
Publication list Louk Hagendoorn 345
List of Contributors 353

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