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9780198521815

Empirical Approaches to Social Representations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198521815

  • ISBN10:

    0198521812

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1993-07-01
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

For years, social psychologists and anthropologists have argued about the best way to study social representations. This book shows how different empirical approaches to the study of social representations are viable and can even be complementary. The first part of the book presents key arguments concerning the relationship between theory and method. Topics addressed include ethnographic approaches to social representations, the study of children's representations, and the analysis of discourse. The second half deals with a variety of research topics, but a question central to all of them concerns the circumstances under which one can be certain of having described a social representation. The answer lies in the use of multivariate statistical analysis, which provides the necessary degree of accuracy. The use of this valuable technique is fully explained.

Table of Contents

Empirical contributions to the study of social representations
Studying the thinking society: social representations, rhetoric, and attitudes
Studying social representations in children: just old wine in new bottles?
An ethnographic approach to social representations
Vikings! Children's social representations of history
n Discourse analysis and social representations
Debating social representations
The problems of investigating social representations : linguistic parallels
Integrating paradigms, methodological implications
The descriptive analyses of shared representations
The lattice of polemic social representations: a comparison of the social representations of occupations in favelas, public housing, and middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil
Finding social representations in attribute checklists: how will we know when we have found one?
Multidimensional scaling as a technique for the exploration and description of a social representation
The meaning of work for young people: the role of parents in the transmission of a social representation
Social representations of mental illness: naive and professional perspectives
Epilogue: Methodological contributions to the theory of social representations
Index
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