Social Thinking and History (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)

Self-Help

De Saint Laurent, Constance

Memory Improvement

Routledge

Social Thinking and Historydemonstrates that our representations of history are constructed through complex psychosocial processes, in interaction with multiple others, and that they evolve throughout our lifetime, playing an important role in our relation to our social environment. Building on the literatures on social thinking, collective memory, and sociocultural psychology, this book proposes a new perspective on how we understand and use our collective past. It focuses on how we actively think about history to construct representations of the world within which we live and how we learn to challenge or appropriate the stories we have heard about the past. Through the analysis of three studies of how history is understood and represented in different contexts - in political discourses in France, by intellectuals and artists in Belgium, and when discussing a current event in Poland - its aim is to offer a rich picture of our representations the past and the role they play in everyday life. This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology, memory studies, sociology, political science and history. It will also make an interesting read for psychologists, human and social scientists working on collective memory.

Social Thinking and History: A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past (Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation)

Taking a pragmatist approach to methods and methodology that fosters meaningful, impactful, and ethical research, this book rises to the challenge of today's data revolution. It shows how pragmatism can turn challenges, such as the abundance and accumulation of big qualitative data, into opportunities. The authors summarize the pragmatist approach to different aspects of research, from epistemology, theory, and questions to ethics, as well as data collection and analysis. The chapters outline and document a new type of mixed methods design called 'multi-resolution research," which serves to overcome old divides between quantitative and qualitative methods. It is the ideal resource for students and researchers within the social and behavioural sciences seeking new ways to analyze large sets of qualitative data. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Pragmatism and Methodology: Doing Research That Matters with Mixed Methods

Gillespie, Alex

Glăveanu, Vlad

Reference

Cambridge University Press

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