Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Children and social identity / Mark Bennett and Fabio Sani -- The development of a sense of "we" : the emergence and implications of children's collective identity / Diane Ruble ... [et al.] -- Developmental aspects of social identity / Fabio Sani and Mark Bennett -- Gender as a social category : intergroup processes and gender-role development / Kimberly Powlishta -- The gender wars : a self-categorization perspective on the development of gender identity / Barbara David, Diane Grace and Michele Ryan -- The development of national identity and social identity processes : do social identity theory and self-categorization theory provide useful heuristic frameworks for developmental research? / Martyn Barrett, Evanthia Lyons, and Arantza del Valle -- Ethnic minority identity and social context / Maykel Verkuyten -- Social identity processes and children's ethnic prejudice / Drew Nesdale -- The development and self-regulation of intergroup attitudes in children / Adam Rutland -- Reducing stepfamily conflict : the importance of inclusive social identity / Brenda Banker ... [et al.] -- The development of social identity : what develops? / Dominic Abrams -- Towards a developmental social psychology of the social self / Kevin Durkin.