The Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations

Sammut, Gordon; Andreouli, Eleni; Gaskell, George; Valsiner, Jaan

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“…This other is multipleit is our interlocutor of a conversation at the pub, but also the institutions regulating the cultural context of that conversation (Castro & Batel, 2008;Howarth, 2006a). Through these assumptions, re-presentation is seen as doubly situatedthat is, is seen as attending to both the cultural and the interactional (Castro, 2015). Thus, self-other relationssocially situated, and hence often asymmetricbecome the main social-psychological object.…”

Section: Tsr Along the Last 30 Yearsmentioning

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“…Interested in linguistic formats, these proposals are mindful of not imposing the categories of the researcher, avoiding inferential jumps by keeping close to description (Weatherall, 2012b), and refrain from major extrapolations to outside the interactive event (Stokoe, 2012). They thus usually explore the microinteractional level (Gibson, 2015) or what some call 'd', little discourselooking at how discursive formats 'shape interaction sequences' and functions (Putnam, 2008, p. 341), and primarily use mundane and non-research instigated data as a site of enquiry, instead of materials resulting from interviews and focus groups. In turn, analysts influenced by critical proposals have paid less attention to the interactive context, and more attention to how certain cultural meaning systems and ideologies (or orders of discourse; Foucault, 1971) surface in discourse and are there reproduced, helping maintaining power asymmetries and arrangements (e.g., Arribas-Ayllon & Walkerdine, 2008;Burman, Alldred, Bewley, & Goldberg, 1996;Fairclough, 1992;Fairclough & Fairclough, 2013;Parker, 1998).…”

Section: Dp During the Last 30 Yearsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet some subscribed to a strong (Potter & Wetherell, 1998) and others to a weak incompatibility thesis (Billig, 1988;Doise, 1993). The former mostly disagreed on the status that the notion of 'representation' should occupy in social psychologywith DP refusing it an epistemological place (Potter & Wetherell, 1998) and TSR claiming its indispensability (Jovchelovitch, 1996, for reviews, see Voelklein & Howarth, 2005;de Rosa, 2006;Gibson, 2015). Nevertheless, even defenders of the strong incompatibility thesis conceded that both approaches offered a view of the social as constitutive of the psychological (Jodelet, 1989;Moscovici, 1988), and both presented a much-needed critique of the dominant individualistic, positivist, and exclusively experimentalist focus of the field, highlighted the need for a more socially relevant discipline, and opened space for qualitative methodologies.…”

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Reopening the dialogue between the theory of social representations and discursive psychology for examining the construction and transformation of meaning in discourse and communication

Batel

Castro

2018

British J Social Psychol

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The theory of social representations (TSR) and discursive psychology (DP) originated as different social psychological approaches and have at times been presented as incompatible. However, along the years convergence has also been acknowledged, and, lately, most of all, practised. With this paper, we discuss how versions of TSR focusing on self-other relations for examining cultural meaning systems in/through communication, and versions of DP focusing on discourse at cultural, ideological, and interactional levels, can come together. The goal is to help forge a stronger social-psychological exploration of how meaning is constructed and transformed in and through language, discourse, and communication, thus extending current understanding of social change. After presenting a theoretical proposal for integrating those versions of TSR and DP, we offer also an integrated analytical strategy. We suggest that together these proposals can, on one hand, help TSR systematize analyses of social change that are both more critical and better grounded in theorizations of language use, and, on the other, provide DP with analytical tools able to better examine both the relational contexts where the construction and transformation of meaning are performed and their effects on discourse. Finally, we give some illustrations of the use of this analytical strategy.

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Reopening the dialogue between the theory of social representations and discursive psychology for examining the construction and transformation of meaning in discourse and communication

Batel

Castro

2018

British J Social Psychol

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“…Bauer & Gaskell, 1999, 2008Castro & Gomes, 2005;Green & Cl emence, 2008;Wagner & Hayes, 2005;Wagner & Kronberger, 2001;Wagner, Kronberger, & Seifert, 2002): On the one hand, laypeople feel the need to develop a primary form of knowledge-largely based on metaphors and iconic contents-which is functional for everyday life and communication as well as to maintain (or to change) the status quo. On the other hand, laypeople tend to create links among techno-scientific innovations and to anchor new innovations to previous ideas, knowledge, attitudes, and experiences, which thus play a crucial role in assessing novelties and in shaping new SRs (Kronberger, 2015). Nanotechnologies are a recent research field, which has been acclaimed as the next strategic technology after biotechnologies and other new technologies (e.g.…”

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Studying the emergence of a new social representation: Changes in thinking about nanotechnologies in early 21st‐century Italy

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Neresini

2018

Euro J Social Psych

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We investigated the emergence of a new social representation (SR) of a techno‐scientific innovation—nanotechnologies—among the Italian public. We reviewed how nanotechnologies entered parliamentary debates and the media agenda in the early third millennium. We conducted cross‐sectional surveys in 2006 (N = 246) and 2011 (N = 486) to examine the emerging SR of nanotechnologies. We sought to observe processes of anchoring and objectification ‘in action’, by analyzing roles of (i) social groups, and (ii) neighboring SRs of science and of technology, over time. Several changes from 2006 to 2011 were identified: From a ‘descriptive’ to an ‘evaluative’ approach; from a ‘neutral’ to a ‘controversial’ issue; from a ‘concrete’ to an ‘abstract’ object; and from a ‘technological’ to a ‘scientific’ phenomenon. We conclude that nanotechnologies finally became ‘relevant enough’ by 2011 to be considered a proper object of SR, and an emerging SR can be observed.

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“…In a word, studying how the unfamiliar becomes familiar is at the core of the social representation studies (Doise, 1990;Jodelet, 1989;Lo Monaco, Delouvée & Rateau, 2016;Marková, 2015;Moscovici, 1961Moscovici, , 2008Sammut, Andreouli, Gaskell & Valsiner, 2015). The economic crisis has introduced sudden and decisive changes for individual and collective lives in European societies.…”

Section: Studying Lay Knowledge Of Economic Crisis: the Social Represmentioning

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Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from Social Psychology

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International Review of Social Psychology

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This special issue dedicated to the social psychological study of the economic crisis in four European Union countries along the Mediterranean includes six empirical papers discussing different aspects of the phenomenon. Four papers are part of a larger project that started in 2011, aiming to compare the social representations of the economic crisis in France, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. Starting from the study of the social representations of the causes of the crisis and the measures to overcome it, various social psychological parameters that interfere are examined. Thus, the political, ideological, and social positioning, and the axiological universe of the participants are considered as important predictors and mediators in the different papers. Additionally, possible political participatory activities in reaction to the crisis are considered. The presentation of the outcome of this research project is completed by a paper analyzing the way the crisis was depicted in the Italian press and a paper looking at the impact of the financial threat to political participation in France. The research presented here reveals the ways social subjects give meaning to a situation of crisis and thus provides social and political insights into social thinking and behavior with important policy implications for individual nations as well as Europe at large. In this paper, we present the general framework of the studies carried out and we introduce the collection of empirical papers of the special issue.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations

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Cited by 88 publications

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Reopening the dialogue between the theory of social representations and discursive psychology for examining the construction and transformation of meaning in discourse and communication

Reopening the dialogue between the theory of social representations and discursive psychology for examining the construction and transformation of meaning in discourse and communication

Studying the emergence of a new social representation: Changes in thinking about nanotechnologies in early 21st‐century Italy

Socio-cognitive Elaborations and Reactions to Economic Crisis: Insights from Social Psychology

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