A social representations approach offers an empirical utility for addressing myriad social concerns such as social order, ecological sustainability, national identity, racism, religious communities, the public understanding of science, health and social marketing. The core aspects of social representations theory have been debated over many years and some still remain widely misunderstood. This Handbook provides an overview of these core aspects and brings together theoretical strands and developments in the theory, some of which have become pillars in the social sciences in their own right. Academics and students in the social sciences working with concepts and methods such as social identity, discursive psychology, positioning theory, semiotics, attitudes, risk perception and social values will find this an invaluable resource.
This Handbook provides the theoretical and methodological tools for adopting a social representations approach in field research. Scholars, researchers and students in the social sciences will find it an invaluable resource for understanding contemporary social psychological concerns such as the development of identities, communities and narratives.
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'This Handbook provides an excellent overview of the 'state of the art' in social representations theory, and showcases an impressive range of recent theoretical and empirical work. It will be an essential resource for scholars wanting to pursue a genuinely social form of social psychology.' Nicola Morant, University of Cambridge
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This Handbook provides the requisite theoretical and methodological guidelines for undertaking social research addressing relevant contemporary social issues.
Preface; Part I. Foundations:
1. Social representations: a revolutionary
paradigm? Gordon Sammut, Eleni Andreouli, George Gaskell and Jaan Valsiner;
2. Representation in action Wolfgang Wagner;
3. Social representations and
societal psychology Claudia Abreu Lopes and George Gaskell;
4. On (social)
representations and the iconoclastic impetus Martin W. Bauer;
5. Researching
social representations Uwe Flick, Juliet Foster and Sabine Caillaud; Part II.
Conceptual Developments:
6. Central core theory Pascal Moliner and
Jean-Claude Abric;
7. Attitudes, social representations and points of view
Gordon Sammut;
8. Communication and the microgenetic construction of
knowledge Charis Psaltis;
9. Image, social imaginary and social
representations Angela Arruda;
10. Collective remembering as a process of
social representation Brady Wagoner;
11. Cognitive polyphasia, knowledge
encounters and public spheres Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jacqueline
Priego-Hernįndez;
12. Making community: diversity, movement and
interdependence Caroline Howarth, Flora Cornish and Alex Gillespie; Part III.
New Directions:
13. Social representations and social construction: the
evolutionary perspective of installation theory Saadi Lahlou;
14. From
representations to representing: on social representations and
discursive-rhetorical psychology Stephen Gibson;
15. Positioning theory and
social representations Rom Harré and Fathali Moghaddam;
16. Social semiotics
and social representations Giuseppe Veltri;
17. Identity process theory
Glynis Breakwell; Part IV. Applications:
18. Representations of world history
James H. Liu and Chris G. Sibley;
19. Social order and political legitimacy
Christian Staerklé;
20. Social representations of sustainability: researching
time, institution, conflict and communication Paula Castro;
21. Social
representations of national identity in culturally diverse societies Eleni
Andreouli and Xenia Chryssochoou;
22. The essentialised refugee:
representations of racialized 'Others' Martha Augoustinos, Scott Hanson-Easey
and Clemence Due;
23. Exploring stability and change through social
representations: towards an understanding of religious communities Mohammad
Sartawi;
24. Of worlds and objects: scientific knowledge and its publics
Nicole Kronberger;
25. The self-control ethos Helene Joffe;
26. Social
representations of infectious diseases Véronique Eicher and Adrian Bangerter;
27. Social change, social marketing and social representations Mary Anne
Lauri.
Gordon Sammut is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Malta. Eleni Andreouli is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Open University. George Gaskell is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Jaan Valsiner is Nielhs Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
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