1st Edition
Transforming Social Representations A Social Psychology of Common Sense and Science
Preface. Introduction. Part 1: Social Representations and Common Sense 1. Building Castles in the Air: The Nature, Functions and Processes of Social Representations 2. Answering Unanswered Questions: The Individual and Society in the Dynamics of Social Representations 3. The Domain of Social Representations Part 2: Shifting Paradigms and Changing Reality 4. From the Cartesian to the Hegelian Paradigm: The Re-emergence of Societal Psychology 5. The Social Individual and the Nature of Reality Part 3: Science and Common Sense 6. The Reified and the Consensual Universes – Reality or Myth? 7. Philosophies of Science and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge 8. Towards a Social Psychology of Science Part 4: The Transformation of Social Representations 9. A Case Study in Social Psychology. Bibliography. Author Index. Subject Index.
Biography
S. Caroline Purkhardt
