Social Representations and the Development of Knowledge (Paperback, Revised)

This book raises for the first time developmental issues in relation to the theory of social representations, which Duveen and Lloyd introduced to account for the influence of social life on psychological processes. He describes a society's values, ideas, beliefs and practices as social representations which function both as rule systems structuring social life and as codes facilitating communication. The editors' introduction identifies the need to expand the theory of social representations to consider developmental changes in social beliefs, in individual understanding, and in the process of communication. Individual chapters examine aspects of such processes in the domains of nursery-school life, of gender, of social divisions in society, of images of childhood, of emotion, of intelligence and of psychology. In the final chapter Moscovici considers the contribution which these developmental perspectives make to the theory. The book will interest specialists and students in the human and social sciences, including developmental and social psychology, sociology, and communication studies.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2005
First published:	1990
Editors:	Gerard Duveen • Barbara Lloyd
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	208
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-02103-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology
LSN:	0-521-02103-0
Barcode:	9780521021036

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