Allport’s book chapter structure set the field’s research agenda for fifty years

Evidence

The current volume is thus designed as a companion to The Nature of Prejudice. Our goal is to build on and to reexamine the groundbreaking insights of Gordon Allport in his classic book, providing up-to-date coverage of critical contemporary issues in the social-psychological study of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. The contributions are linked to specific chapters and topics in the classic book. As both Clark and Pettigrew acknowledged, the table of contents of The Nature of Prejudice has defined the field over the past 50 years. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how foundational texts structure entire academic fields, similar to how other canonical works define their disciplines’ taxonomies.