A he recent popularity of the idea that individual minds are social rather than natural
products has gone along with the correlative notion that social groups should be assigned …

I enjoyed Räty and Snellmann's paper. The authors summarize clearly the basic features of
the Theory of Social Representations (TSR), and they scrutinize acutely the main Anglo …

Moscovici's theory of social representations2 has attracted considerable interest among
social psychologists, as well as stimulating a growing body of research (Di Giacomo, 1980 …

The cognitive function aiming to anchor, to stabilise, and the social function aiming to
maintain or create collective identities and equilibrium. Moscovici defines what appears to …

This paper attempts to discuss the'versatility'of the concept of social representations, in the
context of the Anglo-saxon tradition of social psychological research. This is done by …

Moscovici has ushered in the 'era of social representations widely welcomed as a European
alternative to what are increasingly regarded as the shortcomings of mainline American …

The article analyses the critical reception of Serge Moscovici's theory of social
representations in Anglo-Saxon literature (Harré 1984; Potter and Litton 1985; Jahoda 1988 …

Discusses a tradition of research in social psychology that originated in France in the
aftermath of World War II, with specific reference to the publications of S. Moscovici …

The theory of social representations occupies a place apart in social psychology both by the
problems it raises and the scale of the phenomena with which it deals. This provokes many …