Social Representation of Russian people among young Polish community in the UK

Social Representation of Russian people among young Polish community in the UK

Introduction

            In any country or places, there are different groups of people that stand for their specific culture and belief, in order for this group of people to talk to each other or understand each other; they need a system that will stand for their common understanding ( 2007). More particularly it stand for their concepts and ideas that can be considered as outside of the common understanding or something that has a scrupulous for a certain group (2007).

            This system deals with the social representation that is fundamentally a construction of reality that reflects the dominant systems of belief and value that represent an acceptable interpretation of object, individual and even an event (1986). Social representation is the result of the extensive social interaction of any one individual representation in his or her everyday life and consider as the backdrop to the individual’s attitudinal and attributional development (1986). It means that individual echoes affect totally or partially the dominant social representation that leads to the inability of an individual to claim autonomy of belief (1986). 

Social Representation

            The word social representation was first coined and uses by  during 1961 in his study about the reception and circulation of psychoanalysis that was done and conducted in France that elaborate the understanding about the embellishment of the social object by the society or group of people for the reason and point of behaving and communicating (1961;2000). Since the first used and proposal of the said term, social representation theory had become one of the most popular research paradigms in European social psychology, and today it is consider as one of the routine entry in the European social psychology textbooks (2000).

            (1973) defined social representation as a system of values, ideas and practices with a two-fold function. First is to establish an order that will enable individuals to orientate themselves in their material and social world and eventually master it. The second function deals with the ability to communicate, in order to take place amongst members of a community by providing them with a code for social exchange and a code for naming and classifying unambiguously the various aspects of their world and their individual and group history ( 2007). He also stated that the social representation is the set of concepts, statements and explanations that was created by each individual and group in the daily life in the course of inter-individual communications. These are the equivalent, in the perspective of the society, of the myth and belief systems in traditional societies as well as the contemporary version of the common sense (2000).

            Social representation is also consider as the one that revitalize a diverse tradition of the European social psychology that uses the account in the social collective perspective in the analysis of the human cognition and behavior that helped to complement the leading trend of the North American social psychology that focuses its primary analytical unit to the individual (2000). Aside from Europe, social representation is gaining it popularity in Asia and South America (2000)

 

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