Syllabus:
The concepts of disadvantaged, deprivation; Social, physical, cultural and economic consequences of disadvantaged and deprived groups; Educating and motivating the disadvantaged towards development; Relative and prolonged deprivation.
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Application of Psychology to Disadvantaged Groups
Reference Study material:
1. The Concepts of Disadvantaged, Deprivation
- Disability and Poverty – Tony Emmett
- Group Inequality
- Discrimination: Evidence from Psychology and Economics
- Causes of Poverty and a Framework for Action
- Introduction to Poverty Analysis, World Bank Institute
- The World’s Most Deprived – Characteristics and Causes of Extreme Hunger
- Bonds and Bridges – Social Capital and Poverty, World Bank
- Family Functioning Profiles, early onset of disadvantaged neighbourhood
- Urban Poverty and Family Context of Delinquency
- The Many Colors of Crime – Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity and Crime in America
- Reconceptualizing Meritocracy, Harvard
- Perspectives on Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Other Grounds
- How Does the Global Order Harm the Poor, Mathias Risse, Harvard
2. Social, Physical, Cultural and Economic Consequences of Disadvantaged and Deprived Groups
- Disadvantaged Group Responses to Perceived Inequality
- Disparities within India’s Poorest Regions, World Bank
- Gender, Environment, and Poverty Interlinks in Rural India, World Bank
- Growth, Poverty and Inequality, World Bank
- How Disadvantaged Group Members Cope with Discrimination, Harvard
- How stereotyping yourself contributes to your success or failure
- Mortality Burden and Socioeconomic Status in India, Harvard
- Race and Poverty: Divergent fortunes of America’s children
- Responding to Membership in a Disadvantaged Group
- Responding to Tokenism: Individual action in the face of collective injustice
- Teacher Expectations for the Disadvantaged – Rosenthal
- The Poverty-Growth-Inequality Triangle
- The Psychology of Prejudice: In-group Love or Out-group Hate
- The Social Costs of Concentrated Poverty, Harvard
3. Educating and Motivating the Disadvantaged towards Development
- Cultural diversity and anti-poverty policy
- Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication, UNESCO
- Do Early Childhood Intervention Programs Really Work
- Education in the Indian Constitution, Human Rights & Disadvantaged Groups
- European national policies to promote the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups
- HIV/AIDS – Implications for Poverty Reduction, UNDP
- Home based behavioral system family therapy with disadvantaged juvenile deliquents
- International Adoption: The Human Rights Position
- Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children
- Is Equal Opportunity Enough – Rajiv Sethi
- Moving Out of Poverty in India – An Overview, World Bank
- Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms, World Bank
- Removing Social Barriers and Building Social Institutions
- Strengthening families to support children affected by HIV and AIDS
- Training Disadvantaged Rural Children for Interpersonal Cognitive Problem-Solving Skills
- Behavioral Economics and Marketing in Aid of Decision-Making among the Poor, Harvard
- African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention
4. Relative and Prolonged Deprivation;
- Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality
- Relative Poverty and Child’s Cognitive and Behavioral Development
- Does Relative Deprivation Predict the Need for Mental Health Services
- Group based emotions and Intergroup Behavior: The case of relative deprivation
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