Deliberative Breakdowns in the Social Representation Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Sandeep Purao ◽  
David M. Murungi ◽  
David Yates
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Reader Comments ◽  
News Event ◽  
The Right ◽  
Partisan News

This article examines breakdowns that occur when readers at partisan news websites attempt to understand a challenging news event. We conduct the work with the 2017 Alabama senate race as the empirical context marked by the nomination of Republican Roy Moore (a challenging news event for the left-leaning readers), and the story of his alleged sexual misconduct (a challenging news event for the right-leaning readers). To examine how readers attempt to understand these events, we scrape reader comments from two partisan news websites. Our analysis relies on and further elaborates the social representation theory and argumentation theory to identify obstacles that prevent successful progression of social representation processes: rhetorical, epistemological, and emotional breakdowns. The findings from our data reveal indicators of rhetorical breakdowns (greater occurrence of fallacious and non-argumentative reader comments) and epistemological breakdowns (greater use of doxastic comments) both tied to how challenging the news event is as well as indicators of emotional breakdowns (greater occurrence of attack posture) tied to the emotionally charged nature of the news event. We interpret the findings as a balancing act between protecting pre-existing representations and acknowledging the challenging news event. The indicators of potential breakdowns we find enhance our understanding of partisan political discourse viewed through the lens of social representation processes. The article discusses these contributions, including elaborations to social representation theory, and discusses implications of the work.

scholarly journals O significado dos olhos nas representações sociais de clientes transplantados de córnea e suas implicações para o cuidado de si

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 202-205
Author(s):  
Ralrizônia Fernandes Sousa ◽  
Sílvio Éder Dias Da Silva ◽  
Esleane Vilela Vasconcelos ◽  
Lucialba Maria Silva Dos Santos ◽  
Vander Monteiro Da Conceição ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Corneal Transplantation ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Corneal Transplant ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Se ◽  
Social Representation Theory

Objetivou-se identificar o significado dos olhos nas representações sociais de clientes transplantados de córnea e suas implicações para o cuidado de si. Tratase de uma pesquisa descritiva qualitativa, adotando a Teoria das Representações Sociais na perspectiva de Moscovici. Fizeram parte deste estudo, 15 clientes submetidos a transplantes de córnea e que se encontravam em acompanhamento no Consultório de Oftalmologia do Ambulatório do Hospital Ophir Loyola, em Belém, PA. Os depoentes atribuíram significados diversos aos seus olhos, substanciados por sentimentos de tristeza e insatisfação, que contribuíram para mudanças significativas no cuidado de si. Há necessidade de se cogitar sobre o compromisso do enfermeiro com o cliente transplantado de córnea que, muitas vezes, encontra-se fragilizado, necessitando de um olhar mais atento.Descritores: Enfermagem, Transplante de Córnea, Cuidado de Si.Eye on the meaning of social representations corneal transplantation customers and it’s implications for the care of youThe aim of this study was to identify the meaning of the eyes of customers in the social representations of corneal transplant and its implications for self-care. It is a descriptive and qualitative study, adopting the Social Representation Theory in the context of Moscovici. The sample comprised 15 clients who underwent corneal transplantation and were followed up in the office of the Ophthalmology Clinic of the Ophir Loyola Hospital, in Belem, Pará. The respondents attributed different meanings to their eyes; substantiated by feelings of sadness and dissatisfaction, that contributed to significant changes in self-care. There is need to think about the commitment of the nurse with the client cornea transplant, which often is fragile, requiring a closer look.Descriptors: Nursing, Corneal Transplantation, Self-care.Los ojos sobre el significado de los clientes representataciones sociales transplante de córnea y sus conscuencias para el cuidad de ustedEl objetivo fue identificar el significado de los ojos de los clientes en las representaciones sociales de trasplante de córnea y sus implicaciones para el autocuidado. Se trata de un estudio descriptivo cualitativo, adoptando laTeoría de las Representaciones Sociales en el contexto de Moscovici. La muestra es compuesta por 15 clientes que se sometieron a trasplante de córnea que se siguió en la oficina de la Clínica de Oftalmología del Hospital Ophir Loyola, en Belem, Pará. Los encuestados atribuyen diferentes significados a sus ojos, motivada por sentimientos de tristeza e insatisfacción, que han contribuido a cambios significativos en el auto-cuidado. Hay que pensar en el compromiso de la enfermera con el trasplante de cornea del cliente, que a menudo es frágil, lo que requiere una mirada más cercana.Descriptores: Enfermería, Trasplante de Córnea, Cuidar de si.

scholarly journals Universalists or Utilitarianists? The Social Representation of COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10434
Author(s):  
Luiz Antonio Joia ◽  
Flavia Michelotto
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory

A fierce debate arose in Brazil on how to manage and mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic—a debate derived from a dissonant perception by society about the actual significance of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Brazilian population has divided into two contrasting philosophical approaches: the universalism—understanding life as an asset of infinite value and, therefore, more important than the country’s economic preservation—and the utilitarianism—where the focus is on the mitigation of the COVID 19 pandemic-enabled economic crisis, due to its potential devastating effect on people’s lives, thereby leaving health issues in the background. The main cause for these different sensemakings is associated with the lack of a monosemic definition for the “COVID-19 pandemic” construct. Thus, the objective of this article is to investigate the social representation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil through the Social Representation Theory operationalized by the word’s evocation technique. The results show that Brazilian society privileged prophylaxis and health, via social isolation, to the detriment of the country’s economic preservation. In addition, trends emphasized by experts, such as a post-pandemic “new-normal” and the digital transformation of society, played a peripheral role in the social representation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

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.

Connecting Narrative and Social Representation Theory in Health Research

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Murray
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
Social Representation Theory

According to narrative theory, human beings are natural story-tellers, and investigating the character of the stories people tell can help us better understand not only the particular events described but also the character of the story-teller and of the social context within which the stories are constructed. Much of the research on the character of narratives has focussed on their internal structure and has not sufficiently considered their social nature. There has been limited attempt to connect narrative with social representation theory. This article explores further the theoretical connections between narratives and social representations in health research. It is argued that, through the telling of narratives, a community is engaged in the process of creating a social representation while at the same time drawing upon a broader collective representation. The article begins by reviewing some of the common origins of the two approaches and then moves to consider a number of empirical studies of popular views of health and illness that illustrate the interconnections between the two approaches. It concludes that narratives are intimately involved in the organization of social representations.

Social positions and groups: New approximations between Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and social representation theory

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Humberto Faria Campos ◽  
Rita de Cássia Pereira Lima
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Semiotic Mediation ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory

This article proposes approximations between Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and Serge Moscovici’s social representation theory. Both authors are interested in the relationship between agents/groups, social context, and culture, and both value the symbolic dimension in the construction of social reality. Bourdieu highlights the social world of struggles between the socialized agent and culture, while Moscovici privileges interactions involving the collective subject which, whether in conflict or consensus, produces a theory of social knowledge that is revealing of culture. In this broader context, the article highlights relations between “social positions” and “groups” which are present in both Bourdieu and Willem Doise, an important collaborator of Moscovici in the area of social representation theory. Such relations are founded on the principle of structural homology, a principle based on the correspondence between social structure and symbolic systems. This discussion leads to another: the need to understand “consensus” and “conflict” in groups, in both Moscovici and Doise, relating them to the action of forces in Bourdieu’s social field of struggles. The notion of “group,” which is valued in our text, is little discussed by these authors. We emphasize the necessity to go deeper into group interactions in articulation with positions in the social field, and to value group representations and practices in meaning negotiation processes, as well to discuss the question of social change. We propose studying social representations—in groups with homogeneous practices—as a symbolic form of condensation and measurement of symbolic capital, adding to this approach the notion of social position and semiotic mediation.

scholarly journals O carro como um lugar: Perspectivas de territorialidades e representações na cidade de Curitiba

GeoTextos ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tânia Bittencourt Bloomfield
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Transverse Mass ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
The City

A presente pesquisa qualitativa, inserida no âmbito da Geografia Cultural, teve o objetivo de mapear as motivações e perceber as relações que existem entre as visões de mundo, os contextos domésticos e profissionais, que levaram alguns dos proprietários de carros que circulam em Curitiba, a escolherem combinações de letras e números em suas placas, de modo a veicularem mensagens. Para dar conta da pesquisa de campo, foi utilizado um cruzamento entre diferentes aportes teórico-metodológicos: a Teoria das Representações Sociais, a Etnometodologia, a Fenomenologia e o conceito de Cultura Transversal de massa. Os conceitos de “lugar” e “território” concorreram como categorias analíticas, a partir da sistematização e descobertas da análise das entrevistas, realizadas com trinta proprietários de veículos de Curitiba, cujas placas de carro foram escolhidas. As placas escolhidas dos carros foram os elementos que permitiram ampliar o entendimento sobre a constituição do carro como um “lugar” e sobre as territorialidades envolvidas nas práticas que se dão, especialmente, nas ruas de Curitiba. Abstract THE CAR AS A PLACE: PERSPECTIVES OF TERRITORIALITIES AND REPRESENTANTIONS IN CURITIBA This work translates the results of a qualitative research which employed the theoretical tennets of Cultural Geography. One of its research goals was to map the motivations of 30 car owners, in the city of Curitiba, who vehiculated personal messages on their car plates through the combinations of letters and algarisms. The plates were chosen for this research as elements which allowed the researcher to understand the construction of the object Car as a “place”, and of the related territorialities developed by them on the streets of Curitiba. The data collected and generated during the fieldwork stage, in which the above mentioned cars’ owners were interviewed, led to the use of diverse theoretical approaches, such as the Social Representation Theory, Ethnometodoly, Phenomenology, and also the concept of Transverse Mass Culture. For the analysis of the results, the concepts of “place” and “territory” were employed as the necessary tools to systematize, understand, and present the data obtained under the guidance of the discipline of Cultural Geography.

scholarly journals The effect of sexual experience on the social representation of sex in Portuguese young adults

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Gomes ◽  
Cristina Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Representation Theory ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Central Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representation Theory

This study aimed to observe the effect of sexual experience on the social representation of sex in Portuguese young adults. According to social representation theory, the central core of the social representation should be the same in all individuals that share a common social ground, however differences should be found in the peripheral system. It was used a free evocation task to assess the social representation of sex in Portuguese individuals aging between 18 and 25 years old. Nine hundred and sixty individuals were grouped by their sexual experience and condom use habits. A prototypical analysis was conducted to assess the structure of the social representation and statistical differences were analyzed using the qui-square independency test to search for an association between the structure and the group evoking it. The results supported the hypothesis of a common central core for all groups that shows a romanticized vision of sex. The differences found in the peripheral system suggest that sexual experience affects the representation of sex in a way that seems clearer to these individuals the necessity of protection when it comes to sex.

scholarly journals What meaning do individuals give to coastal risks? Contribution of the social representation theory

Marine Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 103629 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lemée ◽  
M. Guillard ◽  
G. Fleury-Bahi ◽  
N. Krien ◽  
C. Chadenas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Coastal Risks ◽  
Social Representation Theory

scholarly journals Improving the Response Time of Online Letter Management Application Users: An Application of Social Representation Theory of Shame

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefri Marzal
Keyword(s):  
Representation Theory ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Late Response ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
The Social ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Management Application ◽  
Social Representation Theory ◽  
Green Zone

One of the most important and potential problems encountered in an official online letter management application is the late response of the recipients. This action research aims to improve the recipients’ response time, and determine the central core of shyness according to response time categories: less than 24 hours (green zone); between 24 hours to 48 hours (orange zone); and more than 48 hours (red zone) in managing formal online letter management system at Jambi University. Using the social representation theory of shyness as the basis of action (adopted from Moscovici (1984)), it is hypothesized that response time displaying will have an impact on response time improvement. Through a survey questionnaire distributed to 129 respondents, the results showed that there was a significant improvement in the participants’ response time respectively in cycles 1 and 2. The percentage for the green zone group increased from 22.44% to 52.49 % in the first cycle, and it ultimately raised to 62.38% at the end of second cycle. Such an increase might be due to the users’ efforts to avoid level of shyness which were classified into: (1) slow to respond and (2) personal or work unit late response time – both marked in red. It is recommended that the use of social shyness incorporated in improving response time in a formal online letter can be further implemented with other social and psychological parameters.

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