ABSTRACT
The appreciation of social and historical conditions of prejudice seen as a precursor to a broader appreciation of prejudice-not limited to antipathy and natural functioning. Prejudice as a social problem and moral dilemma is not about one measures of 'attitudinal negativity' using a questionnaire. It is a challenge; not psychological, but societal. The continuum of attitudinal positions and practices towards the Roma covers a very diverse range of shades and nuances-tolerant, compassionate, paternalistic, conflictual, eliminationist and genocidal. This book explains that 'critical analysis' is not a version of established critical approaches to the study of racism, rather an attempt to bolster a critical agenda by imbuing social psychological theory with a sociological and anthropological texture. The critical analysis rests on three central hermeneutic principles with roots in critical sociology and moral anthropology. The book assesses the value and possibility of project by exploring tragic fate of the Roma minority in Western and Eastern Europe.
