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Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2008
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vol. 63
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issue 5
397-406
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The paper gives an explanation of some ontological and epistemological commitments of a cognitive research program dealing with the social representations, which has been coined by Dan Sperber, namely of the epidemiology of representations. Social representations are described as causal chains linking together mental representations and public productions. The importance of the psychological aspects and external, historical aspects is stressed as necessary in explaining social phenomena. The paper reviews critically Durkheim's concept of social phenomena and an epistemologically more plausible alternative is offered.
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The paper demonstrates social factors and interactions, which have an effect on reasoning about ethnic and racial groups among social and natural scientists. On one hand, the results demonstrate the social conditions and interpersonal communication interactions, which have an effect on the persistency of essentialist judgment. It turned out that the cognitive system is maintained throughout, no matter what the education and social background the people come from. On the other hand, the results show that it is not always and in every situation that people behave according to the essentialist model. Therefore, in the thesis the author points out also other various social factors and interpersonal discourse interactions, which have an effect upon the overlapping of essentialist judgment. The paper demonstrates that psychological essentialism is permanent and is not possible to overlay it completely, only partially, through education derived from pragmatic images, through liberal family background and under the influence of peer groups and institutions in which they are held, and expressed pragmatic socio-value attitudes.
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