scholarly journals Social representations of polydrug use in a Finnish newspaper 1990–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenni Savonen ◽  
Pekka Hakkarainen ◽  
Kati Kataja ◽  
Inari Sakki ◽  
Christoffer Tigerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Polydrug Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Socially Relevant

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the social representations of polydrug use in the Finnish mainstream media. Social representations are shared ways of talking about socially relevant issues and have ramifications on both individual and socio-political levels. Design/methodology/approach The social representations theory and the “What’s the problem represented to be?” analysis provided the theoretical framework. In total, 405 newspaper articles were used as data and analysed by content analysis and thematic analysis. The key tenets of the social representations theory, anchoring, objectifying and naturalisation, were used in data analysis. Findings The study found that polydrug use was written about differently in articles over the study period from 1990 to 2016. Three social representations were introduced: first, polydrug use as a concept was used to refer to the co-use of alcohol and medical drugs. This was seen as a problem for young people, which could easily lead to illicit drug use. Second, illicit drugs were included in the definitions of polydrug use, which made the social representation more serious than before. The typical polydrug user was portrayed as a person who was addicted to substances, could not quite control his/her use and was a threat to others in society. Third, the concepts were naturalised as parts of common language and even used as prototypes and metaphors. Originality/value The study provides a look at how the phenomenon of polydrug use is conceptualised in everyday language as previous research has concentrated on its scientific definitions. It also adds to the research of media representations of different substances.

scholarly journals Representações sociais como produtos e processos: embates em torno da construção discursiva da categoria “vândalos” no contexto das manifestações sociais no Rio de Janeiro em 2013 * Social representation as products and process

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 174 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANA LUCIA ENNE
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Semantic Category ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> Neste artigo, pretendemos discutir como, no decorrer das manifestações sociais que se desenrolaram no Brasil em 2013, em especial no Rio de Janeiro, uma categoria semântica ocupou papel central: a de “vândalos”. Eleito pela mídia hegemônica como termo síntese das ações violentas dos manifestantes, o signo “vândalos” permitiu a construção, via indústria cultural, de uma série de representações sociais sobre as manifestações, os manifestantes e seus atos. A mesma categoria vai ser utilizada, em estratégias diversas, por aqueles que se colocaram, discursivamente, contra as representações produzidas pela grande mídia, através de deslocamentos e reapropriações. Neste trabalho, buscamos não só mapear esses embates, mas indicar o caráter ambivalente das representações, como produto e processo da relação entre os sujeitos e a realidade social.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Representações sociais – Vândalos – Disputas discursivas.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> In this article, we intend to discuss how, within social protests that occurred in Brazil on 2013, especially in Rio de Janeiro, a semantic category has occupied a key role: the so-called "vandals". Singularized by the hegemonic media as the term that best signified the violent actions of some participants of the riots, the sign "vandals" has made possible the construction, via culture industry, of a series of social representations about the social protests, the participants and its acts. The same category is used, in different strategies, by those who have discursively manifested a discordance against the hegemonic media representations of the social protests through displacement and reappropriation. In this article, we will try to map such debates and also to single out the ambivalent character of the social representation, both as product and process of the relationship between subjects and social reality.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Social representations – Vandals – Discursive disputes.</p>

scholarly journals The social representations of climate change: comparison of two territories exposed to the coastal flooding risk

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Mambet Doue ◽  
Oscar Navarro Carrascal ◽  
Diego Restrepo ◽  
Nathalie Krien ◽  
Delphine Rommel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory

Purpose Based on social representation theory, this study aims to evaluate and analyze the similarities and differences between social representations of climate change held by people living in two territories, which have in common that they are exposed to coastal risks but have different socio-cultural contexts: on the one hand, Cartagena (Colombia) and on the other, Guadeloupe (French overseas department, France). Design/methodology/approach A double approach, both quantitative and qualitative, of social representation theory was adopted. The data collection was undertaken in two phases. First, the content and organization of social representation of climate change (SRCC) was examined with a quantitative study of 946 participants for both countries, followed by a qualitative study of 63 participants for both countries also. Findings The study finds unicity in the SRCC for the quantitative study. In contrast, the qualitative study highlights differences at the level of the institutional anchoring of the climate change phenomenon in these two different socioeconomic and political contexts. Practical implications These results are relevant for a reflection in terms of public policies for the prevention and management of collective natural risks, as well as for the promotion of ecological behavior adapted to political and ideological contexts. Originality/value The use of a multi-methodological approach (quantitative and qualitative) in the same research is valuable to confirm the importance of an in-depth study of the social representations of climate change because of the complexity of the phenomenon.

scholarly journals Understanding Common Sense Themes of Intellectual  and Creative Work: the Social Representation of Intellectual Property

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joel Wiramu Pauling
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Vested Interests

<p>This thesis examines the construction of Intellectual Property discourses using the social Psychological theoretical framework of Social Representations theory (Moscovici, 1984), and explores the various themes which emerge around the treatment of knowledge, ideas and creative work from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The first two chapters introduce Social Representations theory and the methodology of Thematic Analysis. Study one presents a historical account and literature review on the general themes of knowledge, intellectual and creative endeavours, and how various cultures and social powers have approached these concepts throughout history. It includes an overview of current technological and social changes around the same themes, the challenges these changes may have on existing social representations, and the groups that have vested interests in particular representations. The idea that existing dominant representations cannot adequately incorporate new representations arising from users and adopters utilising the new medium of the 'network' as a social-cultural tool is also introduced. Study two examines similar topics through analysis of public submissions to the New Zealand Patent act review. In this study, individual submissions are analysed in detail using a thematic analysis-like process, incorporating this into a Social representations framework designed to extend and test the representations observed in study one. Evidence of a dominant industrial representation involving market economic treatment of knowledge centred on a physical resource conceptual anchor was observed. Conflicting social representations held by other groups included representations of a collectivist common good centred on innovation and rights themes. Evidence that significant re-representation of the property conception away from a physical good anchor by various groups was found. Social, cultural, and economic consequences of these competing representations effect on societies are considered.</p>

scholarly journals Understanding Common Sense Themes of Intellectual  and Creative Work: the Social Representation of Intellectual Property

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joel Wiramu Pauling
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Vested Interests

<p>This thesis examines the construction of Intellectual Property discourses using the social Psychological theoretical framework of Social Representations theory (Moscovici, 1984), and explores the various themes which emerge around the treatment of knowledge, ideas and creative work from both historical and contemporary perspectives. The first two chapters introduce Social Representations theory and the methodology of Thematic Analysis. Study one presents a historical account and literature review on the general themes of knowledge, intellectual and creative endeavours, and how various cultures and social powers have approached these concepts throughout history. It includes an overview of current technological and social changes around the same themes, the challenges these changes may have on existing social representations, and the groups that have vested interests in particular representations. The idea that existing dominant representations cannot adequately incorporate new representations arising from users and adopters utilising the new medium of the 'network' as a social-cultural tool is also introduced. Study two examines similar topics through analysis of public submissions to the New Zealand Patent act review. In this study, individual submissions are analysed in detail using a thematic analysis-like process, incorporating this into a Social representations framework designed to extend and test the representations observed in study one. Evidence of a dominant industrial representation involving market economic treatment of knowledge centred on a physical resource conceptual anchor was observed. Conflicting social representations held by other groups included representations of a collectivist common good centred on innovation and rights themes. Evidence that significant re-representation of the property conception away from a physical good anchor by various groups was found. Social, cultural, and economic consequences of these competing representations effect on societies are considered.</p>

scholarly journals ICTs Meanings and Practices: Contributions from the Social Representation Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Sarrica
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory

This paper aims at suggesting that a dialogical encounter between community informatics and social representations approach may bring positive insights to researchers interested in the relationships between ICTs and communities. Social representations are continuously negotiated, they provide communities with shared systems of knowledge within which attitudes can develop, and communications and behaviours become meaningful. Starting from these premises, social representations theory has proven itself adequate to study scientific and technological novelties, including ICTs. Research conducted in Italy will be presented to exemplify why social representation approach may provide an useful framework for doing research in community informatics

Commitment to pro- versus counter-attitudinal behavior and the dynamics of social representations

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Tafani ◽  
Lionel Souchet
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cognitive Restructuring ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Two Dimensional Model ◽  
Students Attitudes

This research uses the counter-attitudinal essay paradigm ( Janis & King, 1954 ) to test the effects of social actions on social representations. Thus, students wrote either a pro- or a counter-attitudinal essay on Higher Education. Three forms of counter-attitudinal essays were manipulated countering respectively a) students’ attitudes towards higher education; b) peripheral beliefs or c) central beliefs associated with this representation object. After writing the essay, students expressed their attitudes towards higher education and evaluated different beliefs associated with it. The structural status of these beliefs was also assessed by a “calling into question” test ( Flament, 1994a ). Results show that behavior challenging either an attitude or peripheral beliefs induces a rationalization process, giving rise to minor modifications of the representational field. These modifications are only on the social evaluative dimension of the social representation. On the other hand, when the behavior challenges central beliefs, the same rationalization process induces a cognitive restructuring of the representational field, i.e., a structural change in the representation. These results and their implications for the experimental study of representational dynamics are discussed with regard to the two-dimensional model of social representations ( Moliner, 1994 ) and rationalization theory ( Beauvois & Joule, 1996 ).

Social Representations and Commitment

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Bonetto ◽  
Fabien Girandola ◽  
Grégory Lo Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Second Line ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
First Line ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Bibliographic Search ◽  
English Articles

Abstract. This contribution consists of a critical review of the literature about the articulation of two traditionally separated theoretical fields: social representations and commitment. Besides consulting various works and communications, a bibliographic search was carried out (between February and December, 2016) on various databases using the keywords “commitment” and “social representation,” in the singular and in the plural, in French and in English. Articles published in English or in French, that explicitly made reference to both terms, were included. The relations between commitment and social representations are approached according to two approaches or complementary lines. The first line follows the role of commitment in the representational dynamics: how can commitment transform the representations? This articulation gathers most of the work on the topic. The second line envisages the social representations as determinants of commitment procedures: how can these representations influence the effects of commitment procedures? This literature review will identify unexploited tracks, as well as research perspectives for both areas of research.

Understanding professional distress through social representations: Investigating the shared experience of healthcare social workers in Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282096742
Author(s):  
Lilian Negura ◽  
Maude Lévesque
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Canadian Provinces

Our study sought to refine our understanding of professional distress by examining the experience of healthcare social workers in the following three Canadian provinces: Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick. Thirty semi-directed interviews were conducted to explore the social workers’ social representation of professional distress and its ties to professional identity and growing organizational constraints. Attitudes, work–life imbalances, and negative workplace experiences were found to increase the subjective experience of distress. Current psychosocial and organizational contexts of front-line practitioners are contributors to their professional distress, a matter further exacerbated by the misrepresentation of social work by colleagues and service beneficiaries.

scholarly journals The representations of adolescents about gynecological consultation

2014 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 438-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Lúcia de Oliveira Gomes ◽  
Adriana Dora da Fonseca ◽  
Denize Cristina de Oliveira ◽  
Camila Daiane Silva ◽  
Daniele Ferreira Acosta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Central Nucleus ◽  
Treatment Results ◽  
Education Professionals ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

Objective: To analyze the social representation of adolescents about gynecological consultation and the influence of those in searching for consultations. Method: Qualitative descriptive study based on the Social Representations Theory, conducted with 50 adolescents in their last year of middle school. The data was collected between April and May of 2010 by Evocations and a Focal Group. The software EVOC and contextual analysis were used in the data treatment. Results: The elements fear and constraint, constant in the central nucleus, can justify the low frequency of adolescents in consultations. The term embarrassment in the peripheral system reinforce current sociocultural norms, while prevention, associated with learning about sex and clarifying doubts, allows to envision an educative function. Obtained testimonies in the focal groups exemplify and reinforce those findings. Conclusion: For an effective health education, professionals, including nurses, need to clarify the youth individually and collectively about their rights to privacy, secrecy, in addition to focus the gynecological consultation as a promotion measure to sexual and reproductive health.

scholarly journals ESPACIO VIVIDO: DEL ESPACIO LOCAL AL RETICULAR. NOTAS EN TORNO A LA REPRESENTACIÓN SOCIAL DEL ESPACIO VIVIDO EN LA GLOBALIZACIÓN

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 225
Author(s):  
Enriqueta Lerma Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Lived Space ◽  
The Social ◽  
Local Space ◽  
Los Grupos

En este artículo argumento la necesidad de repensar el espacio vivido. Propongo complejizar el análisis, consensado teóricamente, del espacio local, integrando el enfoque del espacio reticular. Busco incluir el margen de espacialidad que los grupos sociales construyen fuera de sus lugares cotidianos para explicar las representaciones sociales del espacio vivido, producto de las posibilidades de movilidad social hacia otros lugares.   LIVED SPACED: FROM LOCAL TO RETICULAR SPACE. NOTES ON THE SOCIAL REPRESENTATION OF LIVED SPACE WITHIN GLOBALIZATIONABSTRACTIn this article, I defend the need to rethink lived space. I propose increasing the complexity of the analysis of local space, based on theoretical consensus, by integrating a reticular approach to space. I seek to include the margin of spatiality that social groups construct outside their every day places in order to thus explain the social representations of lived space resulting from the possibilities of social mobility toward other places.

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