Representations of the Social

Reading list

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (2001). Representations of the Social Basil Blackwell.

Moscovici, S, & Duveen, G. (2001).Social Representations: Studies In Social Psychology, Basil Blackwell.

Moscovici, S. (1993). The Invention of Society: Psychological Explanations for Social Phenomena". Cambridge: Polity Press.

Philogene, G. (1999). From Black to African American: A new representation. Praeger.

Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Definition and epistemological origins
Week 3: The nature and functions of social representations
Week 4: The processes of social representations
Week 5: The era of social representations
Week 6: Research in context: A theory of methods
Week 7: From a Cartesian paradigm to an Hegelian paradigm
Week 8: Individual and society: An anthropology of modern life
Week 9: Field trip
Week 10: The social individual
Week 11: The Òthinking societyÓ
Week 12: The social representations of race
Week 13: From race to culture: The making of "African American"


01-22-03
Week 1: Introduction


01-29-03
Week 2: Definition and epistemological origins

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-1.

Moscovici, S. & Duveen, G. (Eds.). (2001) Social Representations: Studies In Social Psychology, London: Basil Blackwell. Introduction.

Philogene, G. (2000). Social representations. In A. Kazdin (ed.), Encyclopaedia of psychology, Washington D.C.:American Psychological Association and New York: Oxford University Press.

Wagner, W. (1996). The social representation paradigm. The Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 35(3), 247-255.


02-05-03
Week 3: The nature and functions of social representations
Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-2.

Durkheim, E. (1896/1974). Individual and collective representations. In Sociology and Philosophy. New York: The New Press.

Flick, U. (1995). Social representations. In J.A. Smith, R.Harre & L.Van Langenhove. Rethinking Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 70-96.


02-12-03
Week 4: The processes of social representations

Farr, R. (1987). Social representation: A French tradition of research. Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior, 17(4), 343-370.

Moscovici, S. & Duveen, G. (Eds.). (2001) Social Representations: Studies In Social Psychology, London: Basil Blackwell, Chapter-1, Chapter-3.


02-19-03
Week 5: The era of social representations

Moscovici, S. & Duveen, G. (Eds.). (2001) Social Representations: Studies In Social Psychology, London: Basil Blackwell, Chapter-7.


02-26-03
Week 6: Research in context: A theory of methods

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-3, Chapter-4, Chapter-6.

Jodelet, D. (1991). Madness and social representations, Berkeley: University of California Press.


03-05-03
Week 7: From a Cartesian paradigm to an Hegelian paradigm

Breakwell, G.M., & Canter, D.V., (1993). Aspects of methodology and their implications for the study of social representations. In G.M. Breakwell & D.V. Canter (Eds.). Empirical Approches to Social Representations, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Doise, W. (1993). Debating social representations. In G.M. Breakwell & D.V. Canter (Eds.). Empirical Approches to Social Representations, Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Farr, R. (1993). Theory and method in the study of social representation. In G.M. Breakwell & D.V. Canter (Eds.). Empirical Approches to Social Representations, Oxford: Clarendon Press.


03-12-03
Week 8: Individual and society: An anthropology of modern life

Moscovici, S. (1993). The Invention of Society: Psychological Explanations for Social Phenomena". Cambridge: Polity.
Class paper: 7-10 pages, Due 04-02-03


Spring Break


04-02-03
Week 9

Field trip


04-09-03
Week 10: The social individual

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-15.

Jodelet, D. (1993). Indigenous psychologies and social representations of the body and self. In U. Kim and J.W. Berry (Eds.), Indigenous psychologies: Research and experience in cultural context, Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Markova, I. & al. (1998). Social representations of the individual: A post-Communist perspective. European Journal of Social Psychology, 28, 797-829.

Oyserman, D. & Markus, H.R. (1998). Self as social representations. In U. Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


04-16-03
Week 11: The "thinking society"

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-7, Chapter-10.

Milgram, S. (1984). Cities as social representations. In R. Farr and S. Moscovici (Eds.). Social Representations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 289-309.

Ullman, A.M. (1995). Art and reality: The construction of meaning. Papers on Social Representations, 4(2), 111-124.


04-23-03
Week 12: The social representations of race

Philogene, G. (2001). Stereotype Fissure: Katz & Braly Revisited, Social Science Information, 40(3), 411-432.

Philogene, G. (2000). Blacks as "Serviceable Other," Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 10(5). pp. 391-401.

Potter, J. & Wetherell, M. (1998). Social representations, discourse analysis, and racism. In U. Flick (Ed.), The psychology of the social, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.


04-30-03
Week 13: From race to culture: The making of "African American"

Deaux, K. & Philogene, G. (Eds.). (2001). Representations of the Social: Bridging Theoretical perspectives, New York: Basil Blackwell. Chapter-8.

Philogene, G. (1999). From Black to African American: A new representation, Praeger.



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