Embracing Change: Knowledge, Continuity, and Social Representations

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• ISBN 10: 0197617387
• ISBN 13: 9780197617380
• Author: Oxford University Press

This book uses a social representations perspective to understand the relationship between social change and continuity, with a particular focus on the production of shared knowledge and the role of the ‘other.’ By first bringing the primacy of relationships and communication to the forefront of the knowing process, and by taking social and cultural forces into account, this book examines growing streams of research on this theoretical and methodological approach. Via contributions from leading experts in their fields, this book applies this framework to a wide range of pressing topics in our daily lives, including healthcare, environmental challenges, aging, and intercultural encounters. Over the course of the book, patterns and trends emerge to advance our knowledge of how change has been studied in social psychology, how common knowledge is organized in everyday life, and how scholars can study and contribute to knowledge patterns as the world evolves.This book is a valuable tool for students and scholars interested in social change and continuity in social and cultural psychology, sociology, political science, healthcare, and related fields.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Entering the Field

Introduction
Chapter 1: Change Seen Through the Lens of Social Psychology in Europe and the USA

Part 2: The Primacy of Relationships

Chapter 2: Stability and Change in Everyday Knowledge
Chapter 3: Social Representations in the Classroom

Part 3: The Primacy of Communication

Chapter 4: Social Representations, Communication and the Evolution of Cultures
Chapter 5: The Contribution of Social Representations Theory for a Social Psychology of Communication Laboratory

Part 4: Change and Continuity as Ongoing Enterprises

Chapter 6: Battles of Ideas Between the Legal and the Legitimate
Chapter 7: Research on the Health, Aging and Society Laboratory

Part 5: Dialogues with Cognate Perspectives

Chapter 8: Social Constructionism and Social Representations Theory
Chapter 9: The Discursive Format of “Social Warming”

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