Social Representations and Identity: Content, Process, and Power

258 Pages·2007·2.352 MB·English

by  Gail Moloney, Iain Walker (eds.)

Social Representations
and Identity
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Social Representations
and Identity
Content, Process, and Power
Edited by Gail Moloney and Iain Walker
SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND IDENTITY
Copyright © Gail Moloney and Iain Walker, 2007.
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Social representations and identity : content, process, and power / edited by
Gail Moloney & Iain Walker.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Group identity. 2. Intergroup relations. 3. Social psychology. 4. Social
perception. 5. Collective behavior. I. Moloney, Gail. II. Walker, Iain, 1960–
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Contents
List of Contributors ix
1 Introduction 1
Gail Moloney and Iain Walker
2 Moving People and Shifting Representations:
Making Immigrant Identities 9
Kay Deaux and Shaun Wiley
3 Social Representations of Alterity in the United States 31
Gina Philogène
4 Identity Representations within Israeli Society:
A Kaleidoscope of Minority Phenomena 43
Emda Orr
5 Social Representations and the Politically Satirical
Cartoon: The Construction and Reproduction of
the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Identity 61
Gail Moloney
6 A Narrative Theory of History and Identity:
Social Identity, Social Representations, Society,
and the Individual 85
James H. Liu and János László
7 Representing “Us” and “Them”:
Constructing White Identities in Everyday Talk 109
Martha Augoustinos and Damien Riggs
8 “It’s Not Their Fault That They Have That Colour
Skin, Is It?”: Young British Children and the Possibilities
for Contesting Racializing Representations 131
Caroline Howarth
9 Conceptions and Misconceptions:
Social Representations of Medically Assisted Reproduction 157
Iain Walker, Pia Broderick, and Helen Correia
10 Inviolable versus Alterable Identities:
Culture, Biotechnology, and Resistance 177
Nicole Kronberger and Wolfgang Wagner
11 Identity, Self-Control, and Risk 197
Hélène Joffe
12 Social Identities and Social Representations:
How Are They Related? 215
Ivana Marková
Index 237
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IST OF ONTRIBUTORS
Martha Augoustinos is a professor and codirector of the Discourse and
Social Psychology Unit (DASP) in the School of Psychology, University of
Adelaide. She has published widely in the areas of “race” and prejudice,
social representations theory, and discursive psychology. She is coeditor
with Kate Reynolds of Understanding Prejudice, Racism and Social Conflict
(Sage, 2001) and coauthor of Social Cognition: An Integrated Introduction
(2nd ed., Sage, 2006) with Iain Walker and Ngaire Donaghue.
Pia Broderickis an associate professor in the School of Psychology at
Murdoch University in Western Australia. She is a developmental and
clinical psychologist with research interests including psychosocial issues
in infertility treatment and alternate family formation, parent-child
attachment, and the optimal development of families and individuals.
She also runs a private practice in clinical psychology, specializing in work
with children, adolescents, and families.
Helen Correiais an associate lecturer in the School of Psychology at
the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests include psycho-
logical and social issues relating to the use of technology. She is also a reg-
istered psychologist with particular experience in the areas of anxiety and
depression.
Kay Deauxis a distinguished professor of psychology at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. She has served as president of
the American Psychological Society, the Society for the Psychological
Study of Social Issues, and the Society of Personality and Social
Psychology. Her books include Representations of the Social: Bridging
Theoretical Traditions(with Gina Philogène, Blackwell, 2001) and To Be
an Immigrant(Russell Sage, 2006).
Caroline Howarth is a lecturer in social psychology at the London
School of Economics. Her research and teaching seeks to push social psy-
chology in general and social representations theory in particular into a