Two of the classic works in the realm of this theory include Moscovici's own seminal work on representations of psychoanalysis in France, and Denise Jodelet's exemplary study of the social representation of madness.

Moscovici's 1961 thesis ( La psychanalyse, son image, son public ), directed by the psychoanalyst Daniel Lagache, explored the social representations of psychoanalysis in France.

Moscovici's pioneering study described how three segments of French society in the 1950s, i. e. the urban-liberal, the Catholic, and the communist milieus, responded to the challenge of psychoanalytic ideas.

There have been various developments within the field since Moscovici's original proposition of the theory.

The theory is less known in the United States, partly because much of Moscovici's original work has been published in French.

Moscovici's son, Pierre Moscovici, is a well-known French politician.

Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of ' queerness ' itself.

This book sought to explain the experience of ‘ taste ’ within the mind and to clarify the theorisation of the concept of the picturesque, following from the writings of William Gilpin and Uvedale Price on the subject.

As such, collective representations help to order and make sense of the world, but they also express, symbolize and interpret social relationships.

Many of Fassbinder ’ s films deal with homosexuality, in keeping with his interest in characters who are social outsiders, but he drew away from most representations of homosexuals in films.

The product of human dialogue, social reality may be considered as consisting of the accepted social tenets of a community, involving thereby relatively stable laws and Social representations

Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, representations, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties.

The term " medical anthropology " has been used since 1963 as a label for empirical research and theoretical production by anthropologists into the social processes and cultural representations of health, illness and the nursing / care practices associated with these.

Since the end of the 20th century, medical anthropologists have had a much more sophisticated understanding of the problem of cultural representations and social practices related to health, disease and medical care and attention.

( 2008 ) ' Global health: why cultural perceptions, social representations, and biopolitics matter ' Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.

* Influences: Do media representations affect our views of particular social groups or issues?

In the 18th century, the Scottish social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) proposed that the " truck, barter, and exchange " activities of the market were corresponding economic representations of human nature, that is, the buying and selling of commodities were activities intrinsic to the market, and thus are the " natural behaviour " of the market.

A study analyzing the West African epidemics from 1997 to 2003 concluded that rather than psychopathology, the episodes were product of normal psychological functioning in undisturbed individuals, who were influenced by the local cultural models or social representations.

A strength of observation and interaction over extended periods of time is that researchers can discover discrepancies between what participants say — and often believe — should happen ( the formal system ) and what actually does happen, or between different aspects of the formal system ; in contrast, a one-time survey of people's answers to a set of questions might be quite consistent, but is less likely to show conflicts between different aspects of the social system or between conscious representations and behavior.

Some advocated that race ‘ should centre not on what race explains about society, but rather on the questions of who, why and with what effect social significance is attached to racial attributes that are constructed in particular political and socio-economic contexts ,’ and thus, addressing the “ folk ” or “ mythological representations ” of race.

Ideology has been called the basis of the social representations of groups, and, in psychological versions of CDA developed by Teun A. van Dijk and Ruth Wodak, there is assumed to be a sociocognitive interface between social structures and discourse structures.

It has been suggested that other disciplines in social psychology such as social identity theory and social representations may be seeking to explain largely the same phenomena as social cognition, and that these different disciplines might be merged into a " coherent integrated whole ".

Emile Durkheim took a wider view of the social environment ( milieu social ), arguing that it contained internalised norms and representations of social forces / social facts: " Our whole social environment seems to us filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds "-collective representations.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

Their social status was achieved in some cases by birth, as with Washington, Jefferson and Jay ; ;

He points out that from the time of Jackson on through World War 1,, evangelical Protestantism was a dominant influence in the social and political life of America.

But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

Yet during the years when I was on the staff of The Nation, I tried to the limit the patience of the editors on almost every occasion when I was permitted to write an editorial having a bearing on a political or social question.

Freedom of the press was lost in Cuba because of decades of corruption and social imbalances.

Brains and beauty, high position in both the social and intellectual worlds, athlete, fabled lover -- if ever the world was any man's oyster it was his.

At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

Nevertheless, Prokofieff was much influenced by Paris during the Twenties: the Paris which was the artistic center of the Western World -- the social Paris to which Russian aristocracy migrated -- the chic Paris which attracted the tourist dollars of rich America -- the avant-garde Paris of Diaghileff, Stravinsky, Koussevitzky, Cocteau, Picasso -- the laissez-faire Paris of Dadaism and ultramodern art -- the Paris sympathique which took young composers to her bosom with such quick and easy enthusiasms.

The university was the only one in Denmark and the status of professor represented the upper social level.

As Mrs. Letch Feeley, was it any wonder that I, once the social arbiter of Filmdom, was excluded from the smart entertainments given by the Astaires, the Coopers, the Gables, the Colmans, the Rathbones, the Taylors, the Thalbergs and such devout, closely knit families as the Barrymores and the Crosbys??

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

First, and most obvious, was the growing nationalism and the tendency to regard the state, and the individual's identification with the state, as transcending other ties of social solidarity.

Jewish identity was often confused with social and economic strivings.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

One of the most interested `` students '' on the tour which the Brevard group took at the National Gallery yesterday following their concert at the White House, was Letitia Baldrige, social secretary to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.

Actually, the dispute between Parker and the society of his time, both ecclesiastical and social, was a real one, a bitter one.

To his Harvard colleague, Josiah Royce, whose philosophic position differed radically from his own, James could write, `` Different as our minds are, yours has nourished mine, as no other social influence ever has, and in converse with you I have always felt that my life was being lived importantly ''.