For the past 40 years, social psychological research on stereotyping and prejudice in the United States has been dominated by the social cognition perspective, which has emphasized the important role of basic categorization processes in intergroup dynamics. An inadvertent consequence of this approach has been a disproportionate focus on social categorization as a causal factor in intergroup ani...

Abstract This article examines the factors behind changing relationships between Chinese born in Singapore, i.e. so-called Babas, and China from late nineteenth century to early 1930s. It observes that while their interactions were congenial interdependent century, they became increasingly contentious antagonistic into twentieth century. Because Babas had settled outside created a creolized cul...

Although the legal acts of recent years often use concept «ideological extremism», none them contain its definition. The author attempts to describe contents by analyzing both Russian and international legislation on counteracting extremism. It is concluded that definition extremism in fact lacking legislation, following formulated: ideology practice illegal influence bodies power citizens moti...