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Social Representations and beyond: Brute Facts, Symbolic Coping and Domesticated Worlds:
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In this paper, social representation theory is scrutinized for its capacity to ask new questions and to give new answers to social psychological problems, and its social constructionist implications and relationship to brute facts are investigated.Abstract:
Social representation theory is scrutinized for its capacity to ask new questions and to give new answers to social psychological problems. Its social constructionist implications and relationship to brute facts are investigated. It is shown that social representations result from collective symbolic coping with 'brute' facts. Consequently representations create the domesticated world of social objects which implies considering activity as part of a representation. Culture change in modern societies is shown to produce 'cognitive polyphasia' by adding alternative representations to existing ones instead of replacing them.read more
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Risk: from perception to social representation.
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Theory and method of social representations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity, and compare these theories to theories of attitudes, schemata and social cognition.
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A social representation is not a quiet thing: exploring the critical potential of social representations theory.
TL;DR: It is argued that while social representations theory appears to have the conceptual tools to begin this critical task, there are serious criticisms and points of underdevelopment that need addressing.
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The Myth of Individualism-Collectivism: A Critical Review
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A Review of Controversies about Social Representations Theory: A British Debate:
TL;DR: Social representations theory has been subjected to several criticisms, particularly within British discursive psychology as discussed by the authors, since its inception more than forty years ago, and it has been criticised by many authors.
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