Social representations are a system of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs and practices that serve to establish social order, orient participants and enable communication among the members of groups and communities. Social representation theory is a body of theory within social psychology and sociological social psychology, with parallels to sociological theorizing such as social constructionism and symbolic interactionism, and similarities in some ways to mass consensus and discursive psychology. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Core ClaimSocial representations are the shared values, ideas, images and practices a community builds up to make sense of unfamiliar ideas and to communicate about them among its members. 1 Connections
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a system of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that serve to establish social order, orient participants and enable communication among the members of groups and communities
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a system of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that serve to establish social order, orient participants and enable communication among the members of groups and communities
Origin section, Moscovici 1961 coinage
The term social representation was originally coined by Serge Moscovici in 1961, in his study on the reception and circulation of psychoanalysis in France.
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Wikipedia article 'Social representation' is filed under Category:Social psychology.
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