This brilliant and original book sets out to dismantle the idea that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society must be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. The author argues that we should reassess the significance of psychological c[...]
Serge Moscovici introduced the concept of social representations into contemporary social psychology. This book brings together some of his classic statements of the theory of social representations as well as elaborations of the distinctive features of this perspective in social psychology.[...]
* For the first time, English-speaking readers will have access to one of the most influential books published in the discipline in the past 30 years. * Psychoanalysis, Its Image and Its Public is in many ways the founding text of the theory of social representations and is, as such, a modern class[...]