Empirical approaches to social representations
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Empirical approaches to social representations
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1993
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Social representations
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A long-awaited and critical review of a key topic, this book shows how different empirical approaches to the study of social representations are viable and can be complementary. Empirical examples of the analysis of particular social representations - from museums to new technology - are included. The ten chapters in the first half of the book present the key arguments concerning the relationship between the theory and methods. The second half looks at a wide variety
of research topics. Of central concern to all the topics are the circumstances under which one can be certain of having described a social representation. The answer lies in the use of multivariate statistical analysis, the use of which is clearly explained.
Table of Contents
- 1. Empirical contributions to the study of social representations
- 2. Studying the thinking society: social representations, rhetoric, and attitudes
- 3. Studying social representations in children: just old wine in new bottles?
- 4. An ethnographic approach to social representations
- 5. Vikings! Children's social representations of history
- 6. Discourse analysis and social representations
- 7. Debating social representations
- 8. The problems of investigating social representations : linguistic parallels
- 9. Integrating paradigms, methodological implications
- 10. The descriptive analyses of shared representations
- 11. The lattice of polemic social representations: a comparison of the social representations of occupations in favelas, public housing, and middle-class neighbourhoods of Brazil
- 12. Finding social representations in attribute checklists: how will we know when we have found one?
- 13. Multidimensional scaling as a technique for the exploration and description of a social representation
- 14. The meaning of work for young people: the role of parents in the transmission of a social representation
- 15. Social representations of mental illness: naive and professional perspectives
- Epilogue: Methodological contributions to the theory of social representations
- Index
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