SOCIAL REPRESENTATION: ITS ONTOLOGICAL STATUS

Authors

  • Elismar Alves dos Santos Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
  • Pedrinho Arcides Guareschi Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n3p1213-1230

Keywords:

Social representations. Representation. Moscovici. Ontology.

Abstract

The ontological status of social representations (SR) has its own philosophical fundaments, which indicate its origin and identity. Moscovici (1925 – 2014), founder of the Social Representation Theory (SRT), turned to different thinkers to demonstrate how the formation of social representations in humans is. Among them are: Durkheim, Lévy-Bruhl, Piaget and Freud. It means that the ontological status of social representations are grounded on sociological, anthropological, cognitive and psychoanalytical aspects. The aim of this article is to show how these thinkers have influenced the creation of the ontological status of social representations. In order to achieve this goal, the present study was based on the deductive method as a logical basis for reasoning, bibliographical research as a technique and several analyzes of the works were carried out, at different stages, using documentation sheets. The conclusion we have come to is that social representations are not only philosophical ideas, but are, especially, living practices broadcast by communication.

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Author Biographies

Elismar Alves dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professor de Psicologia e Teologia na Faculdade de Filosofia e Teologia de Goiás (IFITEG) e na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC-GO) em Goiânia-GO.

Pedrinho Arcides Guareschi, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Professor e pesquisador convidado do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia Social e Institucional da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – Porto Alegre/RS. Pesquisador do CNPQ A1.

Published

2020-09-29

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