pt. 1. Framing the Issues. 1. Introduction / Gina Philogene and Kay Deaux. 2. Why a Theory of Social Representations? / Serge Moscovici -- pt. II. Doing Social Representation Research. 3. A Theory of Methods / Gina Philogene. 4. A Structural Approach to Social Representations / Jean-Claude Abric. 5. The King is Naked Critical Advertisement and Fashion: The Benetton Phenomenon / Annamaria Silvana de Rosa. 6. Social Positioning and Social Representations / Alain Clemence. 7. Human Rights Studied as a Normative Social Representations / Willem Doise. 8. From Race to Culture: The Emergence of African American / Gina Philogene -- pt. III. Social Representation and Social Construction
Summary
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. The material has been grouped into three themes: theory; methodology; and finally case studies
Analysis
representations of the social
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Notes
A volume which results from a conference held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on October 9 and 10, 1998
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-348) and index
