The Making of a Dialogical Theory
Social Representations and Communication
Published on 10. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-1-009-29502-4 (ISBN)
Description
Creating a stimulating social theory with long-lasting in?uence for generations of scholars is driven by multiple interacting factors. The fortune of a theory is determined not only by the author's creative mind but also by the ways in which principal concepts are understood and interpreted. The proper understanding of a social theory requires a good grasp of major historical, political, and cultural challenges that contribute to its making. Considering these issues, Markova explores Serge Moscovici's theory of social representations and communication as a case study in the making of a dialogical social theory. She analyses both the undeveloped features and the forward-moving, inspirational highlights of the theory and presents them as a resource for linking issues and problems from diverse domains and disciplines. This dialogical approach has the potential to advance the dyad Self-Other as an irreducible intellectual, ethical, and aesthetic unit in epistemologies of the human and social sciences.
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'In 'The making of a dialogical theory', Ivana Markova just demonstrated, what such a new dialogical social science, deployed with maestria, can do.' Tania Zittoun, Culture & PsychologyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
422 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-29502-4 (9781009295024)
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Person
Ivana Markova was born in Czechoslovakia and is now Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Stirling, UK. Previous books include The Making of Modern Social Psychology (with Serge Moscovici, Polity Press, 2006), Dialogicality and Social Representations (Cambridge University Press, 2003), and The Dialogical Mind: Common Sense and Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016). She is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the British Psychological Society.
Content
Part I: 1. Socio-political Sources of the Theory of Social Representations; 2. A Political Refugee in Paris; 3. The 'Age of Intellectual Innocence' in Psychoanalysis 1961; 4. The Durkheimian in Psychoanalysis 1976; 5. The 'Great Smoky Dragon'; 6. Pseudo-dialogues and Building Bridges; Part II: 7. Social Representations and Common Sense; 8. Meanings and Knowledge as Semiotic Processes; 9. They 'Made Flowers Grow Where It Seemed Impossible'; 10. Social Representations as Unique Phenomena: Dynamics and Complexity; 11. Social Theories as Dialogues; Afterword; References; Index.