Social representations and identity: content, process, and power

Power, social positioning, identity, and social knowledge construction underpin most contemporary social issues. However, in many instances the topic of study is the issue itself which can lead to an implicit conceptualization of theissue as static, distinct and separablefrom the identity, and relationships, of the groups to whom the issue pertains. Explicitly drawing from the non-individualistic perspective offered by 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.Social representations and Identity: Content, Process, and Power. is an integrated collection of theoretically driven applied research by authors from United Kingdom, Europe, Israel, Australia, and North America that addresses salient social issues such as: immigration, refugees, ethnic and minority relations, national and supranational identity, health, and techno-political rationality. INDICE: Introduction.Moving People and Shifting Representations. Making Immigrant Identities; K.Deaux. &. S.Wiley.Social Representations of Alterity in the United States; G.Philogène.Identity Representations within Israeli Society: A Kaleidoscope of Minority Phenomena; E.Orr.Social Representations and the Politically Satirical Cartoon: The Construction and Reproduction of the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Identity; G.Moloney. A Narrative Theory of History and Identity: Social Identity, Social Representations, Society and the Individual; J.Liu. &. J.LÃíszló.Representing 'Us' and 'Them': Constructing White Identitiesin Everyday Talk;M.Augoustinos. &. D.Riggs."It's Not Their Fault that They Have that Colour Skin, Is It?" Young British Children and the Possibilities for Contesting Racializing Representations; C.Howarth.Conceptions and Misconceptions: Social Representations of Medically Assisted Reproduction; I.Walker, P. Broderick. &. H.Correia.Inviolable Versus Alterable Identities: Culture, Biotechnology and Resistance; N.Kronberger. &. W.Wagner.Self-Control, Identity and Risk; H.Joffe.Social Identities and Social Representations: How Are They Related?; I.MarkovÃí.

• ISBN: 978-1-1372-7107-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 260
• Fecha Publicación: 27/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido