Dear friends, this is a great day! These are the only words I find appropriate to express the
meaning of the conference which gathers us together for the first time in this wonderful …

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 …

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 …

In 1987 Rob Fan-introduced a special issue on social representations in this journal by his
paper on A French tradition ofresearch. Now, nearly ten years later, this French tradition has …

The concept of social representation (SR) was developed by Serge Moscovici in 1961 as a
social psychological approach articulating individual thinking and feeling with collective …

ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis: Its Image and Its Public is a perfect illustration of Tarde's claim
that 'beautiful'should be reserved for ideas that lead to a discovery of more ideas and to an …

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 …

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 …

Doise (in press) has emphasised that researchers have focused empirical work on only one
aspect of the theory of social representations. They have mainly been concerned either with …

In this paper we want to argue that researchers working within the theoretical framework of
social representations should consider employing multi-methodological approaches. Before …