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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: De Rosa, Annamaria Silvana.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural dynamics of social representation
• Physical Description: xxii, 391 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

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.