The Psychology of the Social

Leading international social psychologists offer an integrated theory of the psychology of the social.

Uwe Flick (Edited by)

9780521581592, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 August 1998

300 pages, 4 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg

The differences between individual and collective representations have occupied social scientists since Durkheim, and the social psychological theory of social representations has been one of the most influential theories in twentieth-century social science. The Psychology of the Social brings together leading scholars from social representations, discourse analysis and related approaches to provide an integrated overview of contemporary psychology's understanding of the social. Each chapter comprises a study of a topical issue, such as social memory, the language of racism, intelligence or representations of the self in different cultures; the theory of social representations is both exemplified and linked to central concerns of psychological research, including attribution, memory, and culture; and important links with developmental and educational psychology are made.

Foreword R. M. Farr
1. Social representations in knowledge and language as approaches to a psychology of the social Uwe Flick
Part I. Social Knowledge as an Issue in Social Psychology: 2. The knowledge of social systems Mario von Cranach
3. Everyday knowledge in social psychology Uwe Flick
4. Social attributions and social representations Miles Hewstone and Martha Augoustinos
5. The social construction of knowledge: social marking and socio-cognitive conflict Willem Doise, Gabriel Mugny and Juan A. Pérez
6. Social memory: macrospyschological aspects Augustín Echebarriá Echabe and José Luis Gonzalez Castro
7. Self as social representation Daphna Oyserman and Hazel Rose Markus
Part II. Language and Discourse as Media for Social Psychology: 8. The epistemology of social representations Rom Harre
9. Social representations discourse analysis, and racism Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
10. Social representations and ideology: towards the study of ideological representations Martha Augoustinos
11. Social representations and development: experts' and parents' discourses about a puzzling issue Felice F. Carugati and Patrizia Selleri
12. Social representations and media communications Carlo Michael Sommer
13. The social representation of 'man' in everyday speech Lenelis Kruse
Part III. Social Representations: History and Development of a Field of Research: 14. The history and actuality of social representations Serge Moscovici.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH]