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Social Representation

Social Representations in the “Social Arena”

Social Representations in the “Social Arena”
  • Edited by Annamaria Silvana de Rosa.

Published July 2012

Social Representations in the 'Social Arena' presents key theoretical issues and extensive empirical research using different theoretical and methodological approaches to consider the value of social representation theory when social representations are examined in real world contexts. This…
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Trust and Conflict

Representation, Culture and Dialogue

Trust and Conflict
  • Edited by Ivana Marková, and Alex Gillespie.

Published August 2011

Trust, distrust and conflict between social groups have existed throughout the history of humankind, although their forms have changed. Using three main concepts: culture, representation and dialogue, this book explores and re-thinks some of these changes in relation to concrete historical and…
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Symbolic Transformation

The Mind in Movement Through Culture and Society

Symbolic Transformation
  • Edited by Brady Wagoner.

Published November 2009

This book brings together scholars from around the world to address the question of how culture and mind are related through symbols: it is through the mediation of symbols that we think, act, imagine, feel, dream and remember. Thus, to understand the structure, function and development of symbols…
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Knowledge in Context

Representations, Community and Culture

Knowledge in Context
  • By Sandra Jovchelovitch.

Published January 2007

This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating self, other and object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Understanding its…
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