| Description | The varied papers of Professor Henri Tajfel, FBPsS, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Bristol.
Series available as follows:
Publishing Ref: TAJ/01/01
Lectures and Postgrad seminars Ref: TAJ/01/02
Conferences and Symposia I Ref: TAJ/01/03
Conferences and Symposia II Ref: TAJ/01/04
Committees Ref: TAJ/01/05
Associations, Organisations,Iinstitutions and Societies Ref: TAJ/01/06
Miscellaneous Correspondence Ref: TAJ/01/07
Tapes/ Text, Cameron Interviews Ref: TAJ/01/08 |
| AdminHistory | Henri Tajfel (1919-1982] was born in Poland of Jewish descent. He was educated in several European countries and spent the Second World War in the French army and as a prisoner of war. After the war, he worked with refugees and war victims, and then moved to Britain where he re-started his higher education at Birkbeck College, London. He taught social psychology at Durham and Oxford before moving to Bristol, in 1967, as its first Professor of Social psychology. He held a variety of visiting appointments in Europe and elsewhere, and was a founder member and President of the European Association of Social Psychology. Tajfel was a prolific author of many books and articles. He edited the series European Monographs on Social Psychology for Academic Press. His major contibutions to the study of intergroup relations and social conflict are well captured by his book Human Groups and Social Categories |
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