Redefining Social Problems

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PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY A Series of Texis and Monographs • Edited by Elliot Aronson

THE BELIEF IN A JUST WORLD: A Fundamental Delusion Melvin J. Lerner HUMAN AGGRESSION Robert A. Baron INTRINSIC MOTIV A TION Edward L. Deci INTRINSIC MOTIVATION AND SELF-DETERMINATION IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard Heslin and Miles Patterson THE PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS PHENOMENA Gordon L. Patzer REDEFINING SOCIAL PROBLEMS Edited by Edward Seidman and Julian Rappaport SCHOOL DESEGREGATION Harold B. Gerard and Norman Miller SCHOOL DESEGREGATION: Past, Present, and Future Edited by Walter G. Stephan and Joe R. Feagin UNIQUENESS: The Human Pursuit of Difference C. R. Snyder and Howard L. Fromkin

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Redefining

Social Problems Edited by

Edward Seid man

Bank Street College oj Education New York, New York University oj Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois

and

Julian Rappaport

University oj Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, Illinois

Published under the auspices of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Redefining social problems. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Social problems —Congresses. 2. United States —Social conditions —Congresses. 3. Social psychology —Congresses. I. Seidman, Edward. II. Rappaport, Julian. III. Series. HN65.R43 1986 361.1 85-28217 ISBN 978-1-4899-2238-0 ISBN 978-1-4899-2236-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-2236-6

© 1986 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1986 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986

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To JEANNE L. SMITH who, in an introductory course in experimental psychology (circa 1961), instilled in us the excitement of understanding behavior. Moreover, she challenged and taught us to think and question, both logically and creatively. For these invaluable formative experiences we are eternally indebted.

Contributors

CARY CHERN ISS

Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology Rutgers University Piscataway, New Jersey MICHELLE FINE

Graduate School of Education University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania DENISE

J.

FOISY

Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia Canada LINDA K. GIRDNER

Institute for Child Behavior and Development University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois NANCY M. HENLEY

Department of Psychology University of California,