Socially shared representations of history have been important in creating, maintaining and changing a people's identity. Their management and negotiation are central to interethnic and international relations. We present a narrative framework to represent how collectively significant events become (selectively) incorporated in social representations that enable positioning of ethnic, national ...

The vacuum in the context of social representations: an explanatory hypothesis for the social representation of madness. The present article suggests that cultural contents can be studied with the help of social representations theory. The results of some studies that have described the social representation of madness are described, emphasizing a recurrent characteristic: otherness, that is, m...

Although the term artificial life was coined less than a decade ago to describe “the study of man-made systems that exhibit behaviors characteristic of natural living systems” (Langton, 1989, p. l), social scientists had long before begun studying the man-made systems of values, beliefs and behaviors that comprise a culture. With others, we suggest that these mental entities emerge, develop, an...

Objective To elicit the social representations of the elderly regarding integrative community therapy (ICT). Method This is an exploratory study conducted with 273 elderly people in a municipality of northeastern Brazil, in 2014. It is based on the theory of social representations and the free-association test for the inductor term "integrative community therapy". The data were processed usin...

In this chapter the relationships between cognitive agents’ architecture and social phenomena produced by their behavior are discussed. What is needed in an agent’s architecture designed for MAS, social theory, and a non reductive social simulation (Sun, 2001)? Which are the peculiar features of Social Structures as they emerge among cognitive agents? Which are the needed mental representations...

OBJECTIVES understand the Social Representations about needlestick injuries elaborated by Nursing Technicians and analyze how these representations influence their conducts. METHOD the data, obtained by interviews, were processed using ALCESTE software and their analysis was based on Serge Moscovici's Social Representations Theory. RESULTS it was evidenced that, after the accident, these pr...