Social representations in the "social arena" / / edited by Annamaria Silvana de Rosa

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785990903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hove : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-136-23866-2; 1-283-64288-3; 0-203-10213-4; 1-136-23867-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Collana: Cultural dynamics of social representation
• Altri autori (Persone): De RosaAnnamaria Silvana
• Disciplina: 302
• Soggetti: Social representations; Intergroup relations; Social psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Notes on the contributors -- Introduction: taking stock : a theory with more than half a century of history -- Social representations theory faced with "social demand" -- Reflections on social demand and applied social psychology in general -- Interconnections between social representations and intervention -- Research fields in social representations : snapshot views from a meta-theoretical analysis -- Field works in various contexts through different methodological approaches -- Normative social representations and institutional organisational contexts -- Social representations of Italian criminal justice : ideals and reality -- Perspectives on leadership : culture, practices and health -- Culture and health practices -- AIDS' social representations : beliefs, attitudes, memory and social sharing of rumours -- Ten to fifteen-year-old pupils faced with AIDS : intergroup relations, ideology, and politics -- Social representations and intergroup relationships : some preliminary questions -- Identity and interdependence : for a social psychology of the European Union -- Normative regulations and the use of language in describing political events : an analysis of the pragmatic use of language on newspapers -- ; Social representations and economic psychology -- Social representations of the economy -- A modelling approach to social representations -- Resisting cognitive polyphasia in the social representations of madness -- Place identity and social representations of historic capital cities : Rome through the eyes of first visitors from six countries.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 comprehensive text brings together international experts to explore the relevance of a variety of applications of social representation theory in both institutional and organizational settings, and discusses how social representation theory compares with other constructs of social psycholo