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While climate change has become a salient political and social issue in Western societies, we know relatively little about how these societies will react to one of the potentially important consequences of climate change: increasing migration flows. By means of a representative online survey in Germany, this paper therefore investigates for the very first time to what extent citizens in industrialized societies are willing to accept climate change migrants, especially in comparison with other groups of migrants and refugees, and the circumstances and principles under which they would accept them. The findings show that climate change migrants receive high support levels comparable with those enjoyed by political refugees (migrants who need special protection) and that contrast with attitudes towards economic migrants (who are often not seen as in need of special protection). We also see that people are more likely to accept justifications for taking climate change migrants when they realize that the expected number of migrants is relatively low. While arguments about morality, corrective justice, and a country's capacity lead to similar acceptance rates in general, the latter argument plays a more important role for highly educated people and non-environmentalists than the former two. The findings of this study allow us to better prepare for potential conflicts that might emerge with increasing migration flows caused by climate change.

Relatório de atividade profissional de mestrado em Língua, Literatura e Cultura Inglesas ; Num mundo globalizado, caracterizado por uma crescente mobilidade de povos, é amplamente reconhecida a importância que a língua inglesa assume enquanto instrumento de comunicação, investindo-se no seu ensino como um fator essencial para uma aproximação de culturas e de desenvolvimento de uma educação para a cidadania. Assim, tal como preconizado pelo atual quadro legislativo, do qual se destacam as orientações emanadas do Conselho da Europa, para além da aprendizagem de competências exclusivamente linguísticas, torna-se imperativo o desenvolvimento de uma educação intercultural consciente de valores e atitudes cívicas conducentes ao desenvolvimento pessoal e social dos alunos, com vista à criação de uma sociedade mais pacífica e mais justa. Esta dissertação pretende explorar o uso de filmes na aula de inglês de nível secundário como promotores de aprendizagens a vários níveis, incluindo o seu contributo para a consciencialização intercultural e para a cidadania. Assim, partindo de um levantamento de opiniões de professores referentes à dimensão intercultural do ensino do inglês, à cidadania e ao uso de filmes nas suas práticas letivas, foi aferida a importância que os professores atribuem a estas questões e procedeu-se à elaboração de uma lista de filmes com interesse intercultural e para a promoção da cidadania. O uso de filmes na aula de inglês para promover o pensamento crítico, despertar a consciência cívica e intercultural e o respeito pelos direitos humanos, é exemplificado através da sugestão de diversas atividades que tiveram por base o filme Crash (2004). ; In a globalized world characterized by an increasing mobility of people, the importance of the English language is widely recognized as a tool for communication. Its teaching essentially brings cultures together and promotes the development of an education for citizenship. Thus, as recommended by the current legislative framework, with special reference to ...

Este artigo pretende discutir algumas concepções sobre homossexualidade e gênero produzidas no discurso da Psicologia. Com esse objetivo, questionários com questões sobre estes temas foram aplicados a estudantes do curso de Psicologia de uma universidade brasileira. Os resultados apontam para uma rejeição de posições preconceituosas acerca das minorias sexuais e de gênero. Por outro lado, as respostas também apontam para uma assimilação do discurso politicamente correto, mas sem uma mudança significativa na concepção binária acerca da produção das identidades sexuais e de gênero ou sobre a formação de novos modelos de família no mundo contemporâneo. Por fim, destaca a necessidade de mais espaço no currículo de formação em Psicologia para a discussão de temas como a diversidade sexual e de gênero.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 What this Book Is About -- 1.2 Methodological Notes -- 1.3 The Organisation of the Book -- References -- Part I Context and Concepts -- 2 African Refugees in Australia: Resettlement and Representation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Resettlement -- 2.2.1 Global Initiatives -- 2.2.2 Australian Context -- 2.2.3 The Arrival of African Refugees -- 2.3 Representation -- 2.3.1 Racial Prejudice as Anchoring -- 2.3.2 From Anchoring to Othering -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Education and Refugee Integration: A Capability Approach -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Educational Capability -- 3.2.1 Substantive Opportunities -- 3.2.2 Conversion Ability -- 3.2.3 Navigational Capacity -- 3.2.4 Conditioned Choice -- 3.3 Implications for Policy, Practice, and Further Research -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Part II Educational Attainment -- 4 School Education: Aspirations, Engagement, and Transition -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Aspirations -- 4.3 Engagement -- 4.4 Transition -- 4.5 Persisting Challenges -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 5 Higher Education Opportunities: Policy Visibility of Refugees -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 National Initiatives -- 5.3 Sectoral Policies -- 5.4 Institutional Translation -- 5.5 Problematising the Equity Provisions -- 5.5.1 Disconnection: Scalar Misalignment -- 5.5.2 Omission: Policy Silence -- 5.5.3 Distortion: Issue Misframing -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6 Higher Education Participation: Access, Experience, and Success -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Access -- 6.3 Experiences -- 6.4 Success -- 6.5 Overlooked Factors of Disadvantage.

Thessaly was a region of great importance in the ancient Greek world, possessing both agricultural abundance and a strategic position between north and south. It presents historians with the challenge of seeing beyond traditional stereotypes (wealth and witches, horses and hospitality) that have coloured perceptions of its people from antiquity to the present day. It also presents a complex and illuminating interaction between polis and ethnos identity. In daily life, most Thessalians primarily operated within, and identified with, their specific polis; at the same time, the regional dimension – being Thessalian – was rarely out of sight for long. It manifested itself in stories told, in deities worshipped, in modes of political co-operation, in language, rituals, sites and objects.

Chapter by chapter, this book follows the emergence, development and adaptation of Thessalian regional identity from the Archaic period to the early second century BC. In so doing, rather than rejecting ancient stereotypes as a mere inconvenience for the historian, it considers the constant dialogue between Thessalian self-presentation and depictions of the Thessalian character by other Greeks. It also confronts some of the prejudices and assumptions still influencing modern approaches to studying the region. All in all, the reader is invited to see Thessaly not as a region of marginal significance in Greek history, but as occupying a central role in many aspects of ancient cultural and political discourse.

"Dancing Black, Dancing White: Rock and Roll, Race, and Youth Culture of the 1950s and Early 1960s explores the phenomenon of rock and roll dance of the 1950s and early 1960s, a time of egregious racial prejudice and segregation in the U.S., through the lens of the popular televised teen dance program. Both dance history and social history, Dancing Black, Dancing White traces the experiences of Black and white teenagers as they traverse the enticing world of rock and roll music and dance. Several occurrences took shape during this time: the ascendancy of rock and roll music and recorded sound; the rise of the "teenager"; the beginnings of television, and the country's struggle with race. The shows were primarily segregated, and the book examines how white teenagers took Black dances and dance styles into their own bodies. At the same time, the book explores the few all-Black teen dance shows that existed-before Soul Train-and considers how both white and Black teenagers navigated the color line. While their experiences differed, in both cases the desire of the teenagers was to have a space of their own where they could be seen, heard, appreciated, and understood, and in many ways the teen dance shows fulfilled these aims"--

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces-extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions.Susan T. Fiske has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of social cognition. Throughout her distinguished career, she has investigated how people make sense of other people, using shortcuts that reveal prejudices and stereotypes. Her research in particular addresses how these biases are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. In 2013, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and, in 2011, to the British Academy. She has also won several scientific honours, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the APA Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award, the APS William James Fellow Award, as well as the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations Wundt-James Award and honorary degrees in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.This collection of selected publications illustrates the foundations of modern social cognition research and its development in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. In a specially written introductory chapter, Fiske traces the key advances in social cognition throughout her career, and so this book will be invaluable reading for students and researchers in social cognition, person perception, and intergroup bias

The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party's involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of selective state education from 1945 up to the present day.Close consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards education, both in power and in opposition. Legh examines the Party's responses to the pressure for comprehensive schooling and egalitarianism from the Labour Party and the British left. In doing so, Legh defies current historiography to demonstrate that the Party were not passive actors in the advancement of comprehensive schooling.The lively narrative is moved along by the author's critical examination of the Education Ministers throughout this period: Florence Horsbrugh and David Eccles serving under Churchill and Eden and also Quintin Hogg and Geoffrey Lloyd under Macmillan, as well as Edward Boyle and Margaret Thatcher under Edward Heath.Legh's detailed research utilises a range of government documents, personal papers, parliamentary debates and newspapers to provide this crucial re-assessment of the Conservative Party and selective education, and in doing so questions over-simplistic generalisations about wholescale support for selective education policy. It reveals instead questioning, compromises and disagreements within the Party and its political and ideological allies. The result is a stimulating revival of existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars of British education and politics

American society is often characterized as a "guilt culture," as opposed to non-Western "shame cultures." But is this distinction still valid today? Through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, "fat shaming," and cyberbullying on the social media, The Rise of the Shame Society: America's Change from a Guilt Culture into a Shame Culture shows how shame is increasingly invading our lives, leading to feelings of humiliation and depression. Marcel Van Herpen identifies three causes of this phenomenon: new childrearing methods, the advent of the social media, and a transformation of Western individualism. He weighs the arguments for and against a shame society and concludes that a guilt-centered approach remains preferable. Although shame increasingly permeates everyday life, the author argues that its rise is not a fatality. He emphasizes that shame is a dynamic phenomenon and that one can observe trends which lead to an increase of shame, as well as to its decrease. Examples of the latter are a growing sensitivity to the pain caused by anti-Black racism, the decrease of anti-LGBTQIA+ prejudices, and efforts to end the stigmatization of people with disabilities. Along with exploring its increase, The Rise of the Shame Society demonstrates that there are ways to overcome shame

For many Jews, for more than a century, the United States has seemed to be a safe haven. There has been antisemitic prejudice, but nothing on the scale of the discrimination, persecution, pogroms, and genocide witnessed in Europe. White American ethnic violence has assailed many targets, but Jews have rarely been among them. Observing what he took to be an American exception, the influential historian Salo Baron challenged the "lachrymose conception" of Jewish history as an unending flow of oppressions, and many have followed him in seeing American Jews as sheltered from violence. But in recent years a spate of antisemitic attacks has cast doubt on this rosy view.The eminent French scholar Pierre Birnbaum offers a timely reconsideration of the tear-stained pages of Jewish history and the persistence of antisemitism. He explores the promise of American tolerance as well as the darkest moments of American intolerance, such as the 1913 lynching of Leo Frank. Birnbaum engages deeply with Baron's views about Jewish history and tracks the echoes of European antisemitic violence in American culture. He argues that a new and insidious form of antisemitic ideology has arisen, one that sees the state as an instrument of Jewish control-and threatens further bloodshed. Thoughtful and eloquent, Tears of History is an important reflection on the roots of antisemitic violence and hatred

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Systemic Racism and Sociological Theory 1. The Evil of Prejudice: What it is and What Can be Done Hoda Mahmoudi 2. The Problem of Racism in Post-Racial America Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and Liann Yamashita 3. W. E. B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter Aldon Morris 4. Make America White Again: The Racial Reasoning of American Nationalism Matthew W. Hughey and Michael L. Rosino Part 2: Systemic Racism and Education Inequality 5. Systemic Racism in Education Requires Multidimensional Solutions Prudence L. Carter 6. Why did Convergence of the Achievement Gap Stop?: Macroeconomic Change, Policy, and Racial Avoidance Odis Johnson, Jr 7. Seeing Our Most Vulnerable Homeless Students: The Impact of Systemic Racism on the Education of Black Homeless Youth in the United States Earl J. Edwards and Pedro Noguera Part 3: Solutions to Systemic Racism 8. Pursuing Racial Justice on Predominantly White Campuses: Divergent Institutional Responses to Racially Palatable and Racially Conscious Students Chandra Reyna 9. Activism in the Movement for Black Lives Simone Durham 10. Forging Alliances, Seeking Justice: How Relatively Privileged Young People Imagine and Build Solidarity across Difference Beth Cohen 11. Forming a Racially-inclusive Sociological Imagination: Becoming a Racial Equity Learner, Racial Equity Advocate, and Racial Equity Broker Rashawn Ray Epilogue