Journal article
Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation
British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.44(3), pp.415-441
2005
Abstract
This study extends previous research investigating the social representation of organ donation and transplantation (Moloney & Walker, 2000, 2002) by exploring the accommodation of contradiction (Wagner, Duveen, Verma, & Thelmel, 2000) within consensual reality (Rose et al., 1995), and the role of themata (Markova, 2000) in a representation. The study employed a mail-out questionnaire embedded with eight experimental conditions, which manipulated two tasks, scenario rating scale and word association. WMDS (INDSCAL) analyses demonstrated that the dialectical concepts of life and death are generative of a contradictory representational field that is maintained through the differential elicitation of the normative and functional dimensions (Guimelli, 1998) of the representation in accordance with social context.
Details
- Title
- Social representations and themata: The construction and functioning of social knowledge about donation and transplantation
- Authors/Creators
- G. Moloney (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityR. Hall (Author/Creator) - Environmetrics Pty, NSW, AustraliaI. Walker (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- British Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.44(3), pp.415-441
- Publisher
- The British Psychological Society
- Identifiers
- 991005543080607891
- Copyright
- © 2005 The British Psychological Society.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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