Introduction. M.Bennett, F. Sani, Children and Social Identity. Basic Issues. D.N.Ruble, J.Alvarez, M.Bachman, J.Cameron, A.Fuligni, C.G.Coll, E.Rhee, The Development of a Sense of 'We': The Emergence and Implications of Children's Collective Identity. F.Sani, M.Bennett, Developmental Aspects of Social Identity. Identities. K.K.Powlishta, Gender as a Social Category: Intergroup Processes and Gender-Role Development. B.David, D.Grace, M.K.Ryan, The Gender Wars: A Self-categorization Perspective on the Development of Gender Identity. M.Barrett, E.Lyons, A.del Valle, The Development of National Identity and Social Identity Processes: Do Social Identity Theory and Self-categorization Theory Provide Useful Heuristic Frameworks for Developmental Research? M.Verkuyten, Ethnic Minority Identity and Social Context. Applications. D.Nesdale, Social Identity Processes and Children's Ethnic Prejudice. A.Rutland, The Development and Self-regulation of Intergroup Attitudes in Children. B.S.Banker, S.L.Gaertner, J.F.Dovidio, M.Houlette, K.M.Johnson, B.M.Riek, Reducing Stepfamily Conflict: The Importance of Inclusive Social Identity. Epilogue. D.Abrams, The Development of Social Identity: What Develops?K.Durkin, Towards a Developmental Social Psychology of the Social Self.

Reading this book is like participating in a seminar discussion that you don't want to end: the ideas and the evidence are illuminating and engaging. - Paul Webley, University of Exeter, UKThis is a momentous and impressive book. It is a very long time since a social developmental text has offered such rich developmental observations for social psychologists and such powerful theoretical analysis for developmentalists. The result is a wonderful intellectual synergy that ensures that this volume will be seen as a landmark for researchers and students in both areas. Moreover, for psychology as a whole, the book is an all too rare demonstration of the way in which the fusion of methods and insights from two fields can energise and enrich both. It addresses questions at the very heart of our discipline and provides novel and compelling answers that cannot fail to engage a very broad band of readers. - Alex Haslam, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Exeter, UK