Serge Moscovici’s work

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Psychology ◽  
European Association ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
International Workshop ◽  
Minority Influence ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

We organized recently an international workshop in Greece, to confront our ideas about two major theories of Serge Moscovici. The theory of social representations (1961) and the theory of minority influence (1976). It was a question of tracing the perspectives of the legacy he had left us. This book is the collective trace of this work. It is organized in three parts. The first part deals with the epistemic and theoretical questions raised by Serge Moscovici’s work. It begins with a historical reminder of his contribution to the formation of the European Association of Social Psychology. The second part of the book presents recent developments in the theory of minority influence. The actual and potential developments of this theory is discussed. The third part is devoted to the theory of social representations. The topics discussed show that this theory has become a reference theory in social sciences for the analysis of societal issues. One could see in this book a form of homage to the work of Serge Moscovici. But it should above all be seen as a tribute to the liveliness and relevance of the theories he has bequeathed to us.

scholarly journals Reflections of Human In security Concept in the World of Twitter: The #European Hashtag

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (31) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Pelin SÖNMEZ ◽  
Sinan AŞÇI
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Democratic Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Turkish People ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Media Platform

Security means the state of being free from danger, risk or threat. In social sciences, human security is an emerging paradigm shift concerning a person-centered, multi-disciplinary understanding of security involving a number of studies and human rights. According to Amartya Sen 2000 , “human security” is a keyword referring comprehensively everything free of the menaces that threaten the survival, daily lives, and dignity of individuals and to strengthening the efforts to confront these threats. On the other hand, “human insecurity” as a term stands for defining various situations where conflicts lead to perception of deprivation of some-kind, among certain people, in a given context Sirkeci, 2009 . Human insecurity affects migration movements in a way with the connection of 3Ds: namely democratic, development and demographic deficits. Accordingly, it is claimed that recent developments, the attempted coup on July 15, 2016 and the aftermath have made Turkey as a seemingly insecure place in reference to these 3Ds facilitating migration movements in and/or from the country. Sirkeci, 2017 According to the reports of Eurostat published in 2016, asylum applications filed by citizens of Turkey in European countries reached at 3779 in the third quarter comparing to the same quarter of 2015 at 985. After the attempted coup, this tendency seems on the rise, which actually signals us the fact that human insecurity perceptions among citizens. To evaluate this hypothesis, Twitter, as a public social media platform, based on the hashtags used by Turkish people, such as #avrupabirligi and #avrupabirliği in English “european ” was evaluated within the methodology content analysis.

Validation of polemical social representations: introducing the intergroup differentiation of heterogeneity

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Vala ◽  
Leonel Garcia-Marques ◽  
Maria Gouveia-Pereira ◽  
Diniz Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Validation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
Positive Interdependence

Three studies explore the intergroup differentiation of heterogeneity as a strategy for validation of polemical social representations. The first study examines this strategy of validation in a context of simple intergroup differentiation. In the second study the context is one of open political conflict. The last study, also in a political context, introduces the perceptions of the relations between the groups as an independent variable. The first two studies show that the subjects adopted a strategy of validating the polemical representations of the ingroup and invalidating the representations of the outgroup consisting of perceiving the ingroup as psychologically diverse and the outgroup as psychologically more homogeneous, with values being perceived as equally homogeneous in the two groups (study 1) or homogeneous in the ingroup and diverse in the outgroup (study 2). In the third study results show that a salient perception of positive interdependence between the groups is accompanied by homogenization of the members of the ingroup who share the prototypical representations of the ingroup. When there is a salient perception of negative interdependence, the members of the ingroup and the outgroup who share the prototypical position of the ingroup are perceived as heterogeneous. Results are discussed in the context of social representations theory and social psychology of social validation of knowledge.

scholarly journals Indicadores psicossociais: um olhar ampliado para processos educativos

2017 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sandra Lúcia Ferreira ◽  
Anamérica Prado Marcondes ◽  
Adelina Novaes
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Educational Evaluation ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Education Evaluation ◽  
Epistemic Attitude ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

<p>Questões voltadas para o encadeamento de relações em que a pertinência dos indicadores ganha sentido e legitimação – tais como as condições sociais de produção, difusão, reprodução e transformação – foram abordadas com vistas a introduzir uma discussão teórico -metodológica que abarque a construção de indicadores psicossociais. Ao adotar a teoria das representações sociais, o estudo identificou que sua fecundidade para o desenvolvimento de avaliações educacionais ainda é insuficientemente explorada, apesar de o fenômeno das representações sociais conter o ato de avaliar. Nesse sentido, a proposição de adoção de um paradigma psicossocial para a elaboração de indicadores avaliativos no âmbito educacional foi entendida a partir de um novo ethos, bem como de uma renovada postura epistêmica, sem desconsiderar o rigor e a seriedade indispensáveis às pesquisas avaliativas.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Indicadores Psicossociais; Avaliação da Educação; Representações Sociais; Psicologia Social.</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Indicadores psicosociales: una mirada ampliada a los procesos educativos</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Resúmen:</em></strong></p><p><em>Cuestiones relacionadas con el encadenamiento de relaciones en que la pertinencia de los indicadores gana sentido y legitimación – como las condiciones sociales de producción, difusión, reproducción y transformación – fueron abordadas con miras a introducir una discusión teórico-metodológica a fin de abarcar la construcción de indicadores psicosociales. Al adoptar la teoría de las representaciones sociales, el estudio identificó que su fecundidad para el desarrollo de evaluaciones educacionales todavía es insuficientemente explotada, a pesar de que el fenómeno de las representaciones sociales contenga el acto de evaluar. En este sentido, la proposición de adopción de un paradigma psicosocial para elaborar los indicadores evaluativos en el ámbito educacional fue entendida desde un nuevo ethos, así como la adopción de una postura epistémica, sin desconsiderar el rigor y la seriedad indispensables a las investigaciones evaluativas.</em></p><p><strong><em>Palabras Clave:</em></strong><em> Indicadores Psicosociales; Evaluación de la Educación; Representaciones Sociales; Psicología Social.</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p><strong><em>Psychosocial indicators: a wide view of evaluation processes</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Abstract:</em></strong></p><p><em>Questions associated with the binding of relations, in which the pertinence of indicators gain meaning and legitimization such as social conditions of production, promotion, reproduction and transformation, were raised in order to present a theoretic-methodological discussion about the construction of psychosocial indicators. Adopting the theory of social representations, the study identified that its contribution to the development of educational evaluation is insufficiently explored, even if the phenomenon of social representations is suitable to assess it. In this respect, the proposal to adopt a psychosocial paradigm with the aim of elaborating evaluation indicators in the educational context was understood from a new ethos, as well as from a renewed epistemic attitude, without ignoring the necessary rigor and seriousness for the studies.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> Psychosocial Indicators; Education Evaluation; Social Representations; Social Psychology.</em></p>

SOCIETAL AND EXISTENTIAL ISSUES OF AGEING IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH SOCIETY

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
VINCENT CARADEC
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
French Society ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Existential Issues

This article aims to present an overview of the issues surrounding ageing in contemporary French society. Firstly, it sets out the issues that are at the heart of public policy and that constitute the major current orientations of old age policies. Secondly, it discusses other societal issues that are not considered by public policies. In the third part, it adopts a micro-sociological point of view to look at the existential issues of ageing for people who are getting on in years. Finally, the conclusion provides an opportunity to discuss a fourth issue, which concerns the structuring of research in the Human and Social Sciences on ageing.

scholarly journals On Serge Moscovici’s 95th anniversary: The theory of social representations - history, postulates and dissemination

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 542-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Moliner ◽  
Inna B. Bovina
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

The theory of social representations is one of the major theories in social psychology with the thousands of scientific articles that has been published since its birth. In this article we return to the reasons for this success. First, it can be explained by the relative flexibility of the initial postulates of this theory. This flexibility has allowed researchers who are sometimes far removed from psychology to adapt it to their own problems. But the success of the theory of social representations can also be explained by the action taken by Serge Moscovici throughout his career to spread his theory throughout the world. Finally, Serge Moscovici never ceased to suggest new ideas about social representations and many of his suggestions remain untapped to this day. They constitute a real reservoir for researchers of tomorrow.

scholarly journals SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS: Moçambican ethnicities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. a7en
Author(s):  
Antonio Francisco Sefane ◽  
Joseneide dos Santos Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Of Social Representations

This article aims to bring a reflection on the theory of Social Representations from the perspective of Social Psychology. From the bibliographic review, an analogy is made between the theories of social representations, to a concrete society, in this case, the Mozambican society. Social representations have been a topic widely discussed by several and categorized authors, many of them addressing the relationship between cognition-knowledge, individual and society. For this purpose, three Mozambican ethnicities were analyzed, namely, Macuas-Lomués, Ndaus and Tsongas, in which, based on the bibliographic verification of their cultures, beliefs and values, a real analogy can be drawn between the theories on social and cultural representations. the behaviors of these ethnic groups, which make clear the different social representations in the different regions that form the country called Mozambique.The basis of the research was the bibliographic review, both to address the theoretical supports, as well as to address the Mozambican reality.

No fear of George Kingsley Zipf

10.1558/37291 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-263
Author(s):  
Stefano Rastelli ◽  
Kook-Hee Gil
Keyword(s):  
Minimalist Program ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
Language Design ◽  
Efficient Computation ◽  
Generative Linguistics ◽  
The Third ◽  
Factor Effect ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Insight Into

This paper offers a new insight into GenSLA classroom research in light of recent developments in the Minimalist Program (MP). Recent research in GenSLA has shown how generative linguistics and acquisition studies can inform the language classroom, mostly focusing on what linguistic aspects of target properties should be integrated as a part of the classroom input. Based on insights from Chomsky’s ‘three factors for language design’ – which bring together the Faculty of Language, input and general principles of economy and efficient computation (the third factor effect) for language development – we put forward a theoretical rationale for how classroom research can offer a unique environment to test the learnability in L2 through the statistical enhancement of the input to which learners are exposed.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Lewens
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Potential Functions ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Third ◽  
Current State ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Compare And Contrast

Many evolutionary theorists have enthusiastically embraced human nature, but large numbers of evolutionists have also rejected it. It is also important to recognize the nuanced views on human nature that come from the side of the social sciences. This introduction provides an overview of the current state of the human nature debate, from the anti-essentialist consensus to the possibility of a Gray’s Anatomy of human psychology. Three potential functions for the notion of species nature are identified. The first is diagnostic, assigning an organism to the correct species. The second is species-comparative, allowing us to compare and contrast different species. The third function is contrastive, establishing human nature as a foil for human culture. The Introduction concludes with a brief synopsis of each chapter.

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