ABSTRACT

Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology and social psychology, this textbook looks at the quantitative methodology of social representations research, using empirical and graphical illustrations and data tables.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

Nonconsensual Social Representations

part I|51 pages

Common Knowledge

chapter 1|20 pages

Automatic Cluster Analysis

Proximities between Contents of a Social Representation

chapter 3|10 pages

Correspondence Factor Analysis

Mapping of Structuring Elements

part II|45 pages

Shared Knowledge and Individual Positions

chapter 5|2 pages

Three Basic Notions in the Multivariate Approach to Individual Differences

Level, Dispersion and Correlation

chapter 6|22 pages

Factor Analysis

Individual Positions in the Representational Field

chapter 7|17 pages

Multidimensional Scaling of Individual Differences

Individual Distortions of a Mean Structure

part III|49 pages

Group Effects on Individual Positioning

chapter 9|7 pages

Factor Scores

Anchoring of Individual Variations

chapter 10|6 pages

Automatic Interaction Detection

Hierarchization of Field Divisions

chapter 11|9 pages

Discriminant Analysis

Field Organization by Groups

chapter 12|7 pages

Correspondence Analysis of Textual Data

chapter III|4 pages

Conclusion

Reference Points and Individual Positioning