Browsing School of Applied Social Sciences by Research Institute "Media Discourse Centre (MDC)"
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Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran
(Article)Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet there is no existing research into the psychosocial motives underlying the institutional manifestation ... -
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the British Pakistani Muslim community
(Book chapter)Antisemitism is often described as an irrational, age-old prejudice that must be eradicated, while in many social and political contexts anti-Zionism tends to be discussed in terms of a legitimate stance on Israel, a ... -
Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: representation, cognition and everyday talk.
(Book)Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are complex, delineable, yet inter-related social-psychological phenomena. While antisemitism has been described as an irrational, age-old prejudice, anti-Zionism is often represented as a ... -
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims - that’s how it was supposed to be”: exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born Asians.
(Article)This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by ... -
Arranged Marriage, Identity and Psychological Wellbeing among British Asian Gay Men
(Article)The cultural expectation of an arranged heterosexual marriage poses social and psychological challenges for British Asian gay men. This article examines the diary accounts of twelve British Asian gay men concerning their ... -
The Attitudes toward Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Scale: Development and Validation
(Article)PrEP is a novel, clinically effective biomedical HIV prevention tool but it has not met with widespread public acceptance. In this article, the results of a study designed to develop a scale for measuring attitudes toward ... -
Black and minority ethnic men who have sex with men Project evaluation and systematic review.
(Technical Report)Public Health England (PHE) has been funded by the MAC AIDS Foundation to deliver a programme of focused work to improve the health and wellbeing of black and minority ethnic (BME) men who have sex with men (MSM). PHE’s ... -
Bridging micro, meso and macro processes in social psychology
(Book chapter)In this chapter, we argue that a multilevel analysis of social psychological phenomena, which acknowledges cognition and behavior at macro, meso, and micro levels and the interrelations between them, is necessary. We propose ... -
British Sikh Identity and the Struggle for Distinctiveness and Continuity
(Article)Sikhs constitute a high proportion of the ethnic minority population in Britain. Yet, social psychologists have largely neglected this demographically important religious group, leaving much of the theorising to anthropologists ... -
Caste and Identity Processes among British Sikhs in the Midlands
(Article)This article examines the role of caste in the lives and identities of a small sample of young Sikhs in the English Midlands, using social psychological theory. In many academic writings, there is an implicit representation ...