Henri Tajfel: Explorer of Identity and Difference by Rupert B... - 9781138589803

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Henri Tajfel: Explorer of Identity and DifferenceAuthor(s): Rupert Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138589803, 978-1138589803\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a biographical account of Henri Tajfel, one of the most influential European social psychologists of the twentieth century, offering unique insights into his ground-breaking work in the areas of social perception, social identity and intergroup relations.\n\nThe author, Rupert Brown, paints a vivid and personal portrait of Tajfels life, his academic career and its significance to social psychology, and the key ideas he developed. It traces Tajfels life from his birth in Poland just after the end of World War I, his time as a prisoner-of-war in World War II, his work with Jewish orphans and other displaced persons after that war, and thence to his short but glittering academic career as a social psychologist. \n\nBased on a range of sources including interv.