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There has been a tendency to shift our interest in intergroup relations from a soc to a psychol'al framework- from behavior patterns or institutions to att's or beliefs, from discrimination to prejudice, from a sociol't's to a soc psychol't's view of minority-majority relations. The most influential application of psychol'al concepts to the analysis of prejudice is THE AUTH- ORITARIAN PERSONALITY by T. W. Adorno et al. The thesis of this work is that diff's in child rearing patterns have led to 2 contrasting types of personality, authoritarian & democratic, & that prejudice or the lack of it is essentially a reflection of these 2 psyches. The concentration of psychol'ts on the allegedly prejudiced person has produced a relative indifference as to what the object of prejudice may be. Unfavorable judgments that are objectively founded -such as dislike for Communistscannot be considered prejudiced. J. A. Fishman.

Tim Parks, author of Where I'm Reading From, thinks ornate books like Catton's signal the increasingly formulaic highwire act of what he calls 'the dull new global novel.' He critiques the Spanish- Argentine writer Andres Neuman's Traveler of the Century and the Briton William Boyd's Waiting for Sunrise as 'complex literary novels together with the kind of high-tension plot that can attract a wider readership.' Imagine Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice without the provincial protocols of courtship in 19th-century Hertfordshire. The current shift in the novel dovetails with-and may even respond to-another development: Prestigious English-language book prizes, once limited to writers from a handful of countries, are opening up to worldwide competition. In 2013, when the Man Booker announced it would accept non-Commonwealth books, the decision drew fierce criticism. The world's writers and publishers are now invested in that game. While some novelists pander to the broadest possible international readership, however, many great ones still tilt in the other direction. Adapted from the source document.

This article explores the epistemology of prejudice. Prejudice is first defined and examined from the perspective of intergroup relations theory in an attempt to learn more about the origins and methods of knowing about other groups. The second part of the article suggests that recent intergroup research raises fundamental questions about the role of objectivity in studying and managing prejudice. It goes so far as to suggest that our unwillingness to examine our assumptions about objectivity creates barriers to understanding prejudice in academia and managing it in organizations.