Social Representations : Essays in Social Psychology

Serge Moscovici first introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology nearly forty years ago. Since then the theory has become one of the predominant approaches in social psychology, not only in Europe, but increasingly in the United States as well. While Moscovici's work has spread broadly across the discipline, notably through his contributions to the study of minority influences and the psychology of crowds, the study of social representations has continued to provide the central focus for one of the most distinctive and original voices in social psychology today.

Serge Moscovici is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and for many years also taught at the New School for Social Research Gerard Duveen is a lecturer in social psychology at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences in the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College