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Social Identities and Social Representations

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Social Representations and Identity

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The concepts of “identity” and “representation” have had a long history both in mundane and philosophical thought; over aeons of time, they have both retained some stable characteristics, but they have also changed. Questions like “who am I?” “who are we?” and “who are they?” as well as “what do we know about the world and how do we represent it?” have been everlasting. However, answers to these questions have been continuously changing throughout history.

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Marková, I. (2007). Social Identities and Social Representations. In: Moloney, G., Walker, I. (eds) Social Representations and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609181_12

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