Why is it so difficult to understand the theory of social representations?

Culture and Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 455-468

  Raudsepp, Maaris ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Agency; Semiosphere; Social representations; Social representations theory; Sociality

Indexed keywords

EID: 30644474389     PISSN: 1354067X     EISSN: 14617056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354067X05058587     Document Type: Article

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