Representations of the social : bridging theoretical traditions / edited by Kay Deaux and Gina Philogène.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deaux, Kay.

Philogène, Gina, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology.

Social perception.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xii, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Summary:

Humans are social animals, living through interaction with each other. We construct a framework of shared references to define how we think about the world around us. Such shared references are social representations. This theoretical concept allows us to rethink the complex interaction between our individual minds and the social life by focusing primarily on socio-cultural phenomena and their integration into our common sense.

This volume brings together prominent social psychologists from the United States and Europe to present the major concepts and applications of social representation theory. Both content and methodological issues are raised in a series of case-study chapters. In addition, three key themes - social construction, social categorization, and social identification - are addressed through chapters and commentaries by social psychologists representing different theoretical traditions and geographical locales. Covering a wide range of issues, this diverse collection will have a forceful impact on the future of social psychology.

Contents:

Part I Framing the Issues 1

2 Why a Theory of Social Representations? / Serge Moscovici 8

Part II Doing Social Representation Research 37

3 A Theory of Methods / Gina Philogene 39

4 A Structural Approach to Social Representations / Jean-Claude Abric 42

5 The King is Naked. Critical Advertisement and Fashion: The Benetton Phenomenon / Annamaria Silvana de Rosa 48

6 Social Positioning and Social Representations / Alain Clemence 83

7 Human Rights Studied as Normative Social Representations / Willem Doise 96

8 From Race to Culture: The Emergence of African American / Gina Philogene 113

Part III Social Representation and Social Construction 129

9 Functional Aspects of Social Representation / Saadi Lahlou 131

10 Killer Tomatoes! Collective Symbolic Coping with Biotechnology / Wolfgang Wagner, Nicole Kronberger 147

11 Social Representations, Public Life, and Social Construction / Sandra Jovchelovitch 165

12 Social Representations: Catching a Good Idea / Hazel Rose Markus, Victoria C. Plaut 183

13 What We Do and Don't Know about the Functions of Social Representations / John T. Jost, Gabriel Ignatow 190

Part IV Social Representation and Social Categorization 199

14 Social Categorization: Towards Theoretical Integration / Martha Augoustinos 201

15 The When and the Why of How: From Mental Representations to Social Representations / Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi 217

16 Attitudes, Social Representations, and Beyond / George Gaskell 228

17 Social Cognition, Social Representations, and the Dilemmas of Social Theory Construction / Arie W. Kruglanski 242

18 Social and Societal Pragmatism / Susan T. Fiske 249

Part V Social Representation and Social Identification 255

19 Representations, Identities, Resistance / Gerard Duveen 257

20 Social Representational Constraints upon Identity Processes / Glynis M Breakwell 271

21 E-motional Memory and the Identity System: Its Interplay with Representations of the Social World / Marisa Zavalloni 285

22 Social Identities and Social Representations: A Question of Priority? / Marilynn B. Brewer 305

23 Meaning and Making: Some Comments on Content and Process / Kay Deaux 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-348) and index.

ISBN:

0631215336

0631215344

OCLC:

44720785