Social Representations (European Studies in Social Psychology, Series Number 5) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521248000 ISBN 13: 9780521248006

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Serge Moscovici first introduced the concept of socialrepresentations into contemporary social psychology nearly fortyyears ago. Since then the theory has become one of the predominantapproaches in social psychology, not only in continental Europe,but increasingly in the Anglo–Saxon world as well. WhileMoscovici′s work has spread broadly across the discipline, notablythrough his contributions to the study of minority influences andof the psychology of crowds, the study of social representationshas continued to provide the central focus for one of the mostdistinctive and original voices in social psychology today.

This volume brings together some of Moscovici′s classic statementsof the theory of social representations, as well as elaborations ofthe distinctive features of this perspective in social psychology.In addition the book includes some recent essays in which here–examines the intellectual history of social representations,exploring the diverse ways in which this theory has responded to atradition of thought in the social sciences which encompasses notonly the contributions of Durkheim and Piaget, but also those ofLevy–Bruhl and Vygotsky. The final chapter of the book consists ofa long interview with Ivana Markova, in which Moscovici not onlyreviews his own intellectual itinerary but also gives his views onsome of the key questions facing social psychology today.

The publication of this volume provides an essential source for thestudy of social representations and for an assessment of the workof a social psychologist who has consistently sought tore–establish the discipline as a vital element of the socialsciences.

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About the Author

Edited By:

Serge Moscovici is Director of Studies at the +cole desHautes +tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Gerard Duveen is lecturer in Social Psychology at theUniversity of Cambridge and Fellow of Corpus Christi College,Cambridge

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521248000
• ISBN 13: 9780521248006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 441
• Editor: Farr Robert M., Moscovici Serge