scholarly journals Challenges for social representations theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Nikos KALAMPALIKIS ◽  
Thémis APOSTOLIDIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representations Theory

scholarly journals Social representations and information security of children and adolescents: the point of view of teachers (Part 3)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-148
Author(s):  
I.B. Bovina ◽  
N.V. Dvoryanchikov ◽  
S.Yu. Gayamova ◽  
A.V. Milekhin ◽  
S.V. Budykin
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory

The presented text is the last part of the article that reported the results of the study about the information security of children and adolescents in groups of teachers. The study was based on the ideas of the social representations theory, in particular, it concerned with the relations in between social practices and social representations. The object of the study was teachers of secondary schools, the sample included 102 people aged from 22 to 65 years, (M = 39.36 years, SD = 11.12 years, 91 women and 11 men). As a matter of the experience with schoolchildren the sample was divided into three groups: teachers of children, teachers of adolescents, and teachers of children and adolescents. To test the assumption concerning the specificity of the social representations as a matter of practice, a questionnaire was developed, it consisted of 6 parts: In the first part, respondents were asked to evaluate information, in terms of the threat it poses to the safety of children and adolescents. In the next four parts of the questionnaire, respondents were asked to answer questions concerning the hypothetical situations, in each case it was necessary to propose a plan of action in the situation. The last part contained socio-demographic issues. The results about last two situations out of four were discussed.

scholarly journals State of the art of social representations theory in Asia: An empirical meta-theoretical analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria Silvana de Rosa ◽  
Mihaela-Alexandra Gherman
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Research Trend ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Social Representations Theory

AbstractPart of a larger research project aimed at performing the meta-theoretical analysis of the worldwide literature published on social representations theory (SRT), this article explores the state of art of the theory in the geocultural context of Asia, spatially and temporally, as well as from a conceptual, disciplinary, theoretical, empirical and thematic point of view. The Grid for MetaTheoretical Analysis was used on 194 sources, extracted from the So.Re.Com “A.S. de Rosa”@-library. Multi-step strategies of data analyses offer a diversified picture of findings: (a) descriptive statistics and geomapping with Tableau Desktop the bibliometric impact country by country; (b) structural multidimensional view of significant intersections between “meta-data” performing hierarchical clustering on the top of the multiple correspondence analysis. The three clusters detected reveal a shift from a more generic and applied tradition of research on SRT in 2002–2011 to a more theoretically oriented empirical research trend starting from 2011, identifying the scientific production anchored into different Asian regions (Indonesia, China and Israel) and mainly differentiated by the methodology employed. Results revealed that SRT was adopted due to its epistemological and empirical compatibilities with the purpose of creating an original Asian social psychology, interested in indigenous social phenomena specific to cultural backgrounds.

scholarly journals Social representations of polydrug use in a Finnish newspaper 1990–2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenni Savonen ◽  
Pekka Hakkarainen ◽  
Kati Kataja ◽  
Inari Sakki ◽  
Christoffer Tigerstedt
Keyword(s):  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Polydrug Use ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Representations Theory ◽  
Socially Relevant

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the social representations of polydrug use in the Finnish mainstream media. Social representations are shared ways of talking about socially relevant issues and have ramifications on both individual and socio-political levels. Design/methodology/approach The social representations theory and the “What’s the problem represented to be?” analysis provided the theoretical framework. In total, 405 newspaper articles were used as data and analysed by content analysis and thematic analysis. The key tenets of the social representations theory, anchoring, objectifying and naturalisation, were used in data analysis. Findings The study found that polydrug use was written about differently in articles over the study period from 1990 to 2016. Three social representations were introduced: first, polydrug use as a concept was used to refer to the co-use of alcohol and medical drugs. This was seen as a problem for young people, which could easily lead to illicit drug use. Second, illicit drugs were included in the definitions of polydrug use, which made the social representation more serious than before. The typical polydrug user was portrayed as a person who was addicted to substances, could not quite control his/her use and was a threat to others in society. Third, the concepts were naturalised as parts of common language and even used as prototypes and metaphors. Originality/value The study provides a look at how the phenomenon of polydrug use is conceptualised in everyday language as previous research has concentrated on its scientific definitions. It also adds to the research of media representations of different substances.

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