Although the online landscape mediates social representation and renders problematic the issue of informant identity, netnography seems perfectly amenable to treating behavior or the social act as the ultimate unit of analysis, rather than the individual person.
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This critical point of view contributes to the renewal of social philosophy, showing that in a world saturated by media communication, discourse experiences organize the social representations highly, and determine new forms of alienation and reification.
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A study analyzing the West African epidemics from 1997 to 2003 concluded that rather than psychopathology, the episodes were product of normal psychological functioning in undisturbed individuals, who were influenced by the local cultural models or social representations.
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Jean-Claude Abric and his colleagues have explored the structural elements of social representations, distinguishing between " core " and " peripheral " elements in terms of the centrality and stability of certain beliefs.
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Other important developments have been made by Caroline Howarth in linking Social identity theory with the theory of social representations, by Gerard Duveen in elaborating developmental aspects in relation to the micro-genesis of social representations of gender,
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Other important developments have been made by Caroline Howarth in linking Social identity theory with the theory of social representations, by Gerard Duveen in elaborating developmental aspects in relation to the micro-genesis of social representations of gender,
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In his view, Representation Theory allows to unite both, thinking and action, in a social representation where neither action can be treated without reference to thinking and thinking cannot rightly be positioned before action in research designs.
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A good part of Wolfgang Wagner s contributions to Social Representation Theory are theoretical : As one of the first scholars he questioned the commonly assumed methodological idea that mental representations can be treated as the causes of behaviour and action.
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It is interesting that the first social representations around AIDS, for example, almost always featured a rich homosexual who had spent time in Paris, London or New York and then come back to Brazil, bringing the infection with him.
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His current research, drawing on social representations theory, focuses on science, technology and society, in particular the issues of risk and trust; how values influence people s views about technological innovation, and the governance of science and technology.
