Representations of the Social Bridging

This broad-ranging volume introduces social representation theory to a general readership, explaining how humans construct a framework of shared references which defines how we think about our world.

Kay Deaux is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at The City University of New York. She is past president of the American Psychological Society and is author/editor of many books and journal articles.

Gina PhilogFne is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, New York). She has published several journal articles in both the United States and Europe and is the author of From Black to African American: A New Social Representation (1999).

Preface and Acknowledgments

viii

List of Contributors

x

Part I: Framing the Issues

1

(36)

Introduction

3

(5)

Gina Philogene

Kay Deaux

Why a Theory of Social Representations?

8

(29)

Serge Moscovici

Part II: Doing Social Representation Research

37

(92)

A Theory of Methods

39

(3)

Gina Philogene

A Structural Approach to Social Representations

42

(6)

Jean-Claude Abric

The King is Naked. Critical Advertisement and Fashion: The Benetton Phenomenon

48

(35)

Annamaria Silvana de Rosa

Social Positioning and Social Representations

83

(13)

Alain Clemence

Human Rights Studied as Normative Social Representations

96

(17)

Willem Doise

From Race to Culture: The Emergence of African American

113

(16)

Gina Philogene

Part III: Social Representation and Social Construction

129

(70)

Functional Aspects of Social Representation

131

(16)

Saadi Lahlou

Killer Tomatoes! Collective Symbolic Coping with Biotechnology

147

(18)

Wolfgang Wagner

Nicole Kronberger

Social Representations, Public Life, and Social Construction

165

(18)

Sandra Jovchelovitch

Social Representations: Catching a Good Idea

183

(7)

Hazel Rose Markus

Victoria C. Plaut

What We Do and Don't Know about the Functions of Social Representations

190

(9)

John T. Jost

Gabriel Ignatow

Part IV: Social Representation and Social Categorization

199

(56)

Social Categorization: Towards Theoretical Integration

201

(16)

Martha Augoustinos

The When and the Why of How: From Mental Representations to Social Representations

217

(11)

Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi

Attitudes, Social Representations, and Beyond

228

(14)

George Gaskell

Social Cognition, Social Representations, and the Dilemmas of Social Theory Construction

242

(7)

Arie W. Kruglanski

Social and Societal Pragmatism

249

(6)

Susan T. Fiske

Part V: Social Representation and Social Identification

255

(66)

Representations, Identities, Resistance

257

(14)

Gerard Duveen

Social Representational Constraints upon Identity Processes

271

(14)

Glynis M Breakwell

E-motional Memory and the Identity System: Its Interplay with Representations of the Social World

285

(20)

Marisa Zavalloni

Social Identities and Social Representations: A Question of Priority?

305

(7)

Marilynn B. Brewer

Meaning and Making: Some Comments on Content and Process

312

(6)

Kay Deaux

Epilogue

318

(3)

Kay Deaux

Gina Philogene

References

321

(28)

Index

349

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