Sociedad Y Pensamiento
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Social Representations: A Review of Theory
and Research from the Structural Approach
Representaciones sociales: una revisión de la teoría y
las investigaciones desde el enfoque estructural
Recibido: mayo 11 de 2010 | Revisado: diciembre 7 de 2010 | Aceptado: julio 8 de 2011
Joao Wachelke *
Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
A b s t r a c t
The present paper is a review of the theoretical advances and empirical
findings related to social representations according to the structural approach,
a research stream that aims at studying the influence of social factors
in thinking processes through the identification and characterization
of relationship structures. The presentation of the approach begins with
the baseline definitions of social representations according to a structural
approach, moving on to an overview on the nature of representation elements,
the relationships between representations and practices, cognitive
scheme dimensions, central core theory, representation transformations and
interaction context effects. In addition to positioning ourselves concerning
polemic topics during the review, in the final section we evaluate briefly
the current state and future perspectives of structural research on social
representations, mostly addressing the problem of defining consensus, the
difficulty of characterizing a collective construct from individual data, and
the secondary importance of content in structural laws.
Key words authors
Social Representations, Structural Approach, Central Core Theory, Basic Cognitive
Schemes.
Key words plus
Social Psychology, Review, Interactions.
R e s u m e n
Este artículo es una revisión de los avances teóricos y los hallazgos empíricos
relacionados con las representaciones sociales de acuerdo con el enfoque
estructural, una corriente de investigación
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