Perspectives on Minority Influence »

The contributors to this volume examine social processes in terms of minority influence.

Contributors; Preface Serge Moscovici;

Part I. The Process of Minority Influence: Introduction Gabriel Mugny;

1. Innovation and minority influence Serge Moscovici;
2. Social support and minority influence: the innovation effect reconsidered Machteld Doms and Eddy Van Avermaet;
3. Compromising public influence for private change Charlan Nemeth;
4. Conflict and conversion Bernard Personnaz and Michel Guillon;
5. Rigidity and minority influence: the influence of the social in social influence Stamos Papastamou and Gabriel Mugny;

Part II. Minority Influence in Groups: Introduction Eddy Van Avermaet;
6. Innovation and socialisation in small groups John M. Levine and Richard L. Moreland;
7. When and how the minority prevails Harold B. Gerard;
8. The paradox of 'orthodox minorities': when orthodoxy infallibly fails Jean-Pierre Deconchy;
9. Conformity, innovation and the psychosocial law Sharon Wolf and Bibb Latané;
10. Infra-group, intra-group and inter-group: construing levels of organisation in social influence Vernon L. Allen; References; Subject index; Author index.