SOCIÁLNE REPREZENTÁCIE – KOGNITÍVNY VÝSKUMNÝ PROGRAM

• Authors: Kanovský Martin

Title variants

EN

Social representations: A cognitive research program

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLOGY; DURKHEIM EMILE; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SPERBER DAN

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 397-406
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kanovský Martin

• M. Kanovsky, Ustav kulturnych studii, Fakulta socialnych a ekonomickych vied UK, Odbojarov 10/A, 820 05 Bratislava 25, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08SKAAAA04528742