Objective To know the structure of the social representations of right to health and citizenship of health municipal councilors. Method This is a qualitative study, based on the central nucleus theory of social representations, carried out in eight municipalities of the Integrated Region for the Development of the Surroundings of the Federal District, Brazil. The intentional sample consisted ...

The concept of street-level bureaucracy is central to understanding public administration because it pinpoints the role individual civil servants in realization policy. An issue need further illumination that knowledge production and reproduction bureaucracies. This article seeks examine these issues by linking with theory social representations. Social representations offer a social-psychologi...

Parallel advances in communication and visualization technologies have enabled the study and visualization of human behavior at a scale and level of detail never before possible. Nowhere are these advances more evident than within the emerging field of computational social science. Using Adamic and Glance’s image of the political blogosphere as an example and social representations theory as a ...

Two main political and economic paradigms have framed the Social Europe so far. The first one has consisted in the (German) “ordoliberalism”, which has played a key role in structuring the foundations of the European Community as well as those of the Monetary Union. The other and more recent one is the so called “Social Investment Strategy” ” recently endorsed by the European Commission. Both n...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine mothers’ social media accounts that focus on children’s fashion. authors probed fashion photo practices as representations the extended self and kind childhood produced by accounts. They also investigated perceptions privacy when engaging in sharenting – sharing information about children or parenting online. Design/methodology/approach study base...

Attachment theory proposes that experiences with the primary caregivers are an important basis for the development of close social relationships outside the parent-child relationship. This study examined the association between representations of attachment, as assessed with the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), representations of friendship and peer relations, as assessed with an interview in ...