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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Social representations theory"”.
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Transport and travel in a fragile rural tourist destination: a social representations perspective of residents' and visitors' mobility patterns.
… many destination areas. Few studies address the social assumptions that underlie travel behaviour decisions. When Moscovici's social representations theory is employed it suggests that we should develop and draw on shared perceptions, or theories, of the world around us in order to interpret our …
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Gender, Agency and the Veil: Analysing the Role of Representations in Identity Construction by Muslim Women
This qualitative research study draws on social representations theory and the concept of social identity to explore dynamics of knowledge and identity in relation to the Muslim practice of veiling. Data was generated from individual and group interviews with mainly second-generation Muslim women …
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Fractured Discourse: Social Representations Of Shale Gas Development Via Hydraulic Fracturing
Herein I investigate the nature and emergence of social representations of shale gas development (often called "fracking"). Social representations are common sense understandings of complex, novel phenomena generated in the public sphere via communal discourse. I triangulate between results from …
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Signifying creative engagement : what is the influence of professional identity on the values that people ascribe to creative partnership projects in education?
… to interrogate trends appearing in the results: social identity theory and social representations theory, alongside discursive psychology and readings of identity from cultural studies, were mobilized as consecutive lens on the analytic outcomes. These theories were found to be apposite and a …
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Respectability, morality and reputation: social representations of intimate partner violence against women in Cape Town
This study examined the social representations of intimate partner violence (IPV) that emerged amongst violent men, their social networks and within the media, and framed within social representations theory and feminist poststructuralism. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with 11 men, …
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Contenido y estructura de representaciones sociales sobre pedagogía y pedagogos en profesores de ciencias
… de análisis la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales y la Teoría del Conflicto Intergrupo. Se utilizaron datos de cuatro muestras distintas de profesores, pedagogos y estudiantes de cursos de licenciatura, que respondieron voluntariamente a los cuestionarios y entrevistas elaborados. Los …
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Black Men's Responsible Fatherhood Narratives: Fatherhood, Responsibility, Race, and Gender
… in this context, a considerable amount of social attention, this attention has come intertwined with considerable political and moral rhetoric at all levels, making an idea invested with a wide variety of often-conflicting meanings and interests.</p><p> Given the paucity of academic studies …
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Game of (Delivery) Drones: A Game-Based Approach for Supporting Deliberation on the Use of Drones in Logistics
… This study addresses this gap by employing Social Representations Theory and Knowledge Co-creation to examine how individuals construct shared understandings of delivery drones through dialogue, media narratives, and social interactions. A qualitative approach was adopted, and a serious …
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What do I do with my hair? Identity, performance and social representations of Black hair in women of colour in England and Germany
… their hair, the Natural Hair Movement produces social representations of natural hair that reproduce, challenge and transform prevailing social representations of Black hair. Using the Natural Hair Movement as a starting point, this social psychological study draws on hair as a window through …
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Social Representations and Women Who Live as Men in Northern Albania
… there is a centuries-old tradition whereby it is socially acceptable for women to live as men. Despite strict gender norms and heteronormativity under general circumstances, these burrnesha are accepted by their communities and often highly respected and admired. By contrast, LGBT+ communities, …
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Ageing well in the community: social representations of well-being promotion in later life
This thesis is a social psychological study on ideas of well-being in later life by older adults, staff members, and volunteers involved in community support. Social representations theory constitutes the theoretical lens through which social constructions of well-being are examined. This project …
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Protest, Trauma, and Identity: Using Projective Techniques to Study the Formation of Collective Identity among Belarusian Protesters of 2020
Tato disertační práce zkoumá transformaci kolektivní identity mezi Bělorusy, kteří se účastnili masových protestů v roce 2020 nebo je podporovali. Po prezidentských volbách v srpnu 2020 se vlna pokojných masových protestů setkala s bezprecedentním státním násilím, které vedlo k rozkolu ve …