Embracing Change: Knowledge, Continuity, and Social Representations - Hardcover

Contarello, Alberta

 
9780197617366: Embracing Change: Knowledge, Continuity, and Social Representations
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0197617360 ISBN 13: 9780197617366
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2022

Synopsis

This book uses a social representations perspective to understand the relationship between social change and continuity, with a particular focus on the production of shared knowledge and the role of the 'other.' By first bringing the primacy of relationships and communication to the forefront of the knowing process, and by taking social and cultural forces into account, this book examines growing streams of research on this theoretical and methodological approach. Via contributions from leading experts in their fields, this book applies this framework to a wide range of pressing topics in our daily lives, including healthcare, environmental challenges, aging, and intercultural encounters. Over the course of the book, patterns and trends emerge to advance our knowledge of how change has been studied in social psychology, how common knowledge is organized in everyday life, and how scholars can study and contribute to knowledge patterns as the world evolves.

This book is a valuable tool for students and scholars interested in social change and continuity in social and cultural psychology, sociology, political science, healthcare, and related fields.

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About the Author

Alberta Contarello is a full professor of social psychology at the University of Padova, Italy, where she is co-founder and member of the PhD course in social sciences. She has been a visiting scholar in various European and Brazilian universities. Her research and interests include qualitative and quali-quantitative methods in social psychology, social psychology and literature, the social construction of knowledge, gender, generation, and aging in society.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0197617360
ISBN 13 
9780197617366
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
248