Attempts to explain why the author's consider social representation theory a foundation
rather than an eccentricity in the field. Topics discussed include the stuff of social …

This book focuses upon the methods by which social representations can be studied. It has
been often argued that specifying the methods appropriate for the examination of social …

Examines the theory of social representations by discussing the following: The discursive
turn, 2 kinds of social representations, dimensions of social representations, and social …

Following Moscovici (1972), this paper addresses the questions: What is the aim of research
within a social representations perspective? Is it to support or to criticize the social order? Is …

As heir to a strong French sociological tradition, the theory of social representations,
elaborated by Serge Moscovici in the beginning of the 1960s, has become one of the major …

The study “Psychoanalysis—its image and its public” intimates that common sense is
increasingly informed by science. But common sense asserts its autonomy and, in turn, may …

Approximately 30 years after the notion was first presented in a scientific setting (Moscovici,
1961), what now is the status of social representation (SR)? Is it a heuristic concept, a …

Since its inception and elaboration by Moscovici (1961, 1963) over fifty years ago, the theory
of social representations has become an important framework for researchers all over the …

Abstract examine some of the central concepts of social representation theory, in order that
they can be extended to deal with the essentially argumentative aspects of thinking/the …

Abstract starts with the idea of attitudes, which has been at the heart of social psychology for
over half a century/[examines] social representations theory [which states] that people come …