What is Social in Social Representations?
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rp.10616Keywords:
Representations, Collective Representations, Social ThinkingAbstract
This paper aims to provide a clear and operational definition of what social representations are, It describes their relationship with Durkheim’s notion of collective representations, and their basic assumptions as proposed by its lead author, Serge Moscovici. The paper presents a research-oriented scheme for understanding the theory; it also distinguishes the object, the population, and the context as key elements to take into account once we become interested in its methodological approach. In the second part the paper integrates the theory of social representations with the general framework of social thought theories, which are understood as belonging to the social psychology field of knowledge. This conceptual and epistemological integration makes it possible to answer the question raised in the title: what is social in social representations?
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Juárez Romero, J. & Rouquette, M.-L. (2007). El pensa-miento social: arquitectura y formas de estudio. En M. A. Aguilar & A. Reid (Eds), Tratado de Psicología Social, 43-63. Barcelona: Anthropos Editorial.
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