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A collection of short, punchy essays arguing that communities are alive and thriving, but not under government control.

Communities. --- Communities --- Community --- Social groups --- Political aspects.

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Democrat and Republican. Meat Eaters and Vegetarians. Black and White. As human beings we sort ourselves into groups. And once we identify ourselves as a member of a particular group& say, Red Sox fans& we tend to feel more comfortable with others of our own kind, rather than, say, Yankees fans. Yet we all belong to multiple groups at the same time& one might be a woman, a mother, an American, a violinist. How do we decide which identities matter and why they matter so much? And what makes us willing to die for, or to kill for, a religion, a nation, or a race? In this award-winning book, David Berreby describes how twenty-first-century science is addressing these age-old questions. Ably linking neuroscience, social psychology, anthropology, and other fields, 'Us and Them' investigates humanity's & tribal mind& and how this alters our thoughts, affects our health, and is manipulated for good and ill. From the medical effects of stress to the rhetoric of politics, our perceptions of group identity affect every part of our lives. Science, Berreby argues, shows how this part of human nature is both unexpectedly important and surprisingly misunderstood. Humans need our tribal sense& it tells us who we are, how we should behave, and links us to others as well as the past and future. Some condemn this instinct, while others celebrate it. Berreby offers in 'Us and Them 'a third alternative: how we can accept and understand our inescapable tribal mind. & [A] brave book. . . . Berreby's quest is to understand what he sees as a fundamental human urge to classify and identify with & human kinds.' & Henry Gee, 'Scientific American'

Group identity. --- Prejudices. --- Social groups. --- Social psychology. --- Social psychology

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Communication --- Group facilitation --- Organizational behavior --- Social change --- Social groups

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This book is one of the results of the VIII Southern Regional Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology (ABRAPSO), held on the campus of the Federal University of Santa Maria, in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Social psychology. --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Psychology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- PHILOSOPHY

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This textbook explores group communication dynamics with the group that most students are already familiar with, peer groups. The book brings alive many existing group theories, while showcasing under-utilized theories that usefully explain the processes of the groups in which people spend most of their time.

Age groups. --- Small groups. --- Groups, Small --- Social groups --- Groups, Age --- Peer groups --- Social generations --- Cohort analysis