ISBN:
1403979715
,
9780230609181
,
9781403979711
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 247 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Representations and Identity : Content, Process, and Power
DDC:
305.01
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Intergroup relations
;
Social perception
;
Social psychology
;
Collective behavior
Abstract:
Drawing on the non-individualistic perspective of social representations theory, this book presents an alternative view of social identity by articulating the inseparable dynamic relationships that exist between content, process and power relations when social identity is embedded in social knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Moving People and Shifting Representations: Making Immigrant Identities; 3 Social Representations of Alterity in the United States; 4 Identity Representations within Israeli Society: A Kaleidoscope of Minority Phenomena; 5 Social Representations and the Politically Satirical Cartoon: The Construction and Reproduction of the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Identity; 6 A Narrative Theory of History and Identity: Social Identity, Social Representations, Society, and the Individual
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Representing "Us" and "Them": Constructing White Identities in Everyday Talk8 "It's Not Their Fault That They Have That Colour Skin, Is It?": Young British Children and the Possibilities for Contesting Racializing Representations; 9 Conceptions and Misconceptions: Social Representations of Medically Assisted Reproduction; 10 Inviolable versus Alterable Identities: Culture, Biotechnology, and Resistance; 11 Identity, Self-Control, and Risk; 12 Social Identities and Social Representations: How Are They Related?; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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