scholarly journals Social Representations in and of the Public Sphere: Towards a Theoretical Articulation

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANDRA JOVCHELOVITCH
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

scholarly journals Początki kształtowania się reprezentacji społecznej zapożyczeń w sferze publicznej

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 29-41
Author(s):  
Piotr Zbróg
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Way

The beginnings of the shaping of social representations of borrowings in the public sphereThe article presents an initial phase of the process of shaping of social representations of borrowings. The aim was to obtain a view of the way in which participants of the public sphere talked about these elements of language, how they perceived them as well as what common sense image was created on this basis in the communication sphere and how it was modified. The first judgements and opinions on the matter of foreign words appeared around the 16th century and evolved from that moment. The theory of social representations developed by Serge Moscovici was applied as a theoretical and methodological basis of the description. Its research tools allow us to see the way in which societies construct meanings of matters important to them. On the basis of the analysis of the material it was established that from the beginning there were rather antagonistic elements of social representations of borrowings. The functionality of borrowings was noticed. Yet it was postulated that they should be eliminated from texts on account of the necessity to develop the native language, the incomprehensibility of statements as well as the excessive trend of foreignness.

Battles of Ideas Between the Legal and the Legitimate

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Paula Castro ◽  
Sonia Brondi ◽  
Alberta Contarello
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Public Spheres ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Many

This chapter discusses how social psychology can offer theoretical contributions for a better understanding of the relations between the institutional and public spheres and how this may impact change in ecological matters. First, it introduces the difference between natural and agreed—or chosen—limits to human action and draws on Sophocles’s Antigone to illustrate this and discuss how legitimacy has roots in the many heterogeneous values of the public sphere/consensual universe, while legality arises from the institutional/reified sphere. Recalling some empirical research in the area of social studies of sustainability, it then shows how a social representations perspective can help us understand the dynamic and interdependent relations between the institutional or reified sphere and the consensual or common sense universe—and their implications for social change and continuity.

scholarly journals El papel de los medios online en epidemias sanitarias: una comparación de las esferas públicas de México y España / The Analysis of the Online Newspapers in Health Epidemics: A Comparison Between the Public Sphere of Mexico and Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nahia Idoiaga Mondragón
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
Infected People ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

ABSTRACTThe 2009 swine flu was a pandemic influenza involving H1N1 virus. This paper studies how the mass media have treated this issue by analyzing the largest circulation newspapers in Mexico and Spain. According to the Collective Symbolic Coping, when an object enters the public sphere grabbing the attention of the media, the public adopts it and share a common understanding. 167 news of the two newspapers from April 2009 to August 2010 were analyzed. First, a positive correlation between the coverage of the outbreak and influenza-infected people was found. Second, a positive correlation between the coverage of the flu in Spain and the representation of health as a problem for the Spanish was also found. Third, an ALCESTE showed five main classes. Implications for research on social representations and media coverage as well as on strategies resulting from media discourse to cope with threatening health crisis are discussed.RESUMENLa gripe porcina de 2009 fue una pandemia de influenza del virus H1N1. Este trabajo estudia cómo los medios de comunicación han tratado esta cuestión mediante el análisis de los diarios de mayor circulación en México y España. Ba-sándonos en la teoría del Collective Symbolic  Coping,  cuando un fenómeno entra en la esfera pública el acaparandola atención de los medios de comunicación, la sociedad lo asume y comparte una definición común del mismo. Se analizaron 167 noticias de los dos periódicos El Universal y El País entre abril de 2009 y agosto de 2010. En primer lugar, se encontró una correlación positiva entre la cobertura del brote y los infectados de gripe. En segundo lugar, también se encontró una correlación positiva entre la cobertura de la gripe en España y la representación de la salud como un problema para el español. En tercer lugar, el software ALCESTE mostró cinco clases principales. Se discuten las implicaciones para la inves-tigación sobre las representaciones sociales y los medios de comunicación, así como las estrategias resultantes del discurso de los medios para hacer frente a la crisis que amenaza la salud.

scholarly journals Social Representations of Heroes: Triggers from the Past, Values in the Present, Patterns for the Future

Human Arenas ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sára Bigazzi ◽  
Fanni Csernus ◽  
Anna Siegler ◽  
Ildikó Bokrétás ◽  
Sára Serdült ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Explorative Study ◽  
Corpus Construction ◽  
The Public Sphere

AbstractThe representations of heroes and the heroic acts point to social values, norms, and morality of the present, creating a bridge between the past and a potential future. In this paper, a cross-cultural explorative study of heroes is presented aiming to explore general tendencies and possible patterns related to the different social contexts. Participants were reached from seven countries via social media (N = 974) for corpus construction. We asked by their choice of hero, national hero, and desired heroic action in their respective countries. A thematic analysis was conducted. Results show that there is a high rate of no choice, while among the chosen the prototypical hero is a lone moral man acting in the private (family) or public sphere (political actors). Both spheres offer the naturalization of the hero. There is a dialogical frame between the exceptional and the ordinary. Chosen heroes are dominantly contemporary males’ family members or political figures. While the purpose attributed to the personal hero is to maintain stability, the purpose attributed to the heroic actions of the public sphere is to obtain change. Similarities and differences between the seven subcorpuses are also described.

scholarly journals There’s no such thing as a good Arab: Cultural essentialism and its functions concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke J Buhagiar ◽  
Gordon Sammut ◽  
Alessia Rochira ◽  
Sergio Salvatore
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Public ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
Argumentative Strategies ◽  
The Public Sphere

Concerns about immigration are salient in the European Union and in Malta in particular. Previous research has demonstrated deep antipathy towards the Arab community in Malta, and social representations of Arabs are mired in a conflation of ethnic and religious categories with negative connotations. This paper presents evidence of the potency, within the public sphere, of negative arguments from cultural essentialism, concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe. The data were obtained abductively from a data corpus containing positive, mixed and negative arguments about Arabs and their integration. Results pointed towards the almost total exclusivity of arguments from cultural essentialism. These posited Arabic culture as an underlying essence that makes integration difficult or impossible. Different forms of culturally essentialist views varied in their emphasis of different aspects of cultural essentialism. Reductionist, determinist, delineatory and temporal aspects of cultural essentialism were all emphasised by respondents. The essentialist exceptions to negative arguments from cultural essentialism were rare and were posed tentatively by participants. Their paucity and manner of delivery substantiate the claim that it is strictly an Arabic cultural essence that is deemed to make integration impossible. Findings are discussed in light of the communicative functions that these dominant argumentative strategies fulfil.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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