Social Representations and the Development of Knowledge

by Edited by Gerard Duveen , Barbara Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780521021036
• ISBN10: 0521021030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book raises for the first time developmental issues in relation to the theory of social representations, which Duveen and Lloyd introduced to account for the influence of social life on psychological processes. He describes a society's values, ideas, beliefs and practices as social representations which function both as rule systems structuring social life and as codes facilitating communication. The editors' introduction identifies the need to expand the theory of social representations to consider developmental changes in social beliefs, in individual understanding, and in the process of communication. Individual chapters examine aspects of such processes in the domains of nursery-school life, of gender, of social divisions in society, of images of childhood, of emotion, of intelligence and of psychology. In the final chapter Moscovici considers the contribution which these developmental perspectives make to the theory. The book will interest specialists and students in the human and social sciences, including developmental and social psychology, sociology, and communication studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	1	(10)
Gerard Duveen
Barbara Lloyd
The under life of the nursery school: young children's social representations of adult rules	11	(16)
William A. Corsaro
A semiotic analysis of the development of social representations of gender	27	(20)
Barbara Lloyd
Gerard Duveen
Children's representations of social relations	47	(23)
Nicholas Emler
Jocelyne Ghana
Julie Dickinson
Social representations of childhood: an implicit theory of development	70	(21)
Maria D'Alessio
What is in an image? The structure of mothers' images of the child and their influence on conversational styles	91	(16)
Luisa Molinari
Francesca Emiliani
The acquisition of reflexive social emotions: the transmission and reproduction of social control through joint action	107	(19)
Gun R. Semin
Kalliroi Papadopoulou
From social cognition to social representations in the study of intelligence	126	(18)
Felice F. Carugati
Prototypes of the psychologist and professionalisation: diverging social representations of a developmental process	144	(20)
Paola De Paolis
Social psychology and developmental psychology: extending the conversation	164	(22)
Serge Moscovici
Author index	186	(3)
Subject index	189