Narrative Social Psychology and the Narrative Categorical Content Analysis (NarrCat) in the Study of Social Representations of History
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: representations theory has long been interested in narratives (e.g., Bauer, 1996;Flick, 1995; Jovchelovich, 2002;László, 1997).One of the reasons for this interest is that narratives by their communicative nature resist individualistic and universalistic approaches.Stories are rather social and cultural phenomena: particular ways of constructing webs of meanings or psychological realities (Bruner, 1986).Another long term interest of SR theory is relating the social identity of people to social representations of their world (e.g., Breakwell, 1993;Duveen, 2001).We will argue in the present paper that a) social representations of history or collective memory are narratively constructed (László, Ehmann & Imre, 2002;Wertsch, 2002); b) narrative representations of history are intimately related to group identity (c.f.László, 2003;Liu & László, 2007) and, c) particular ways of narrative construction of history refer to psychological aspects of group identity (László, 2008).We will also demonstrate how social representations of history and group identity (e.g., national identity) can be studied quantitatively, through László & Ehmann
Authors: László, János, Ehmann, Bea
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W649094485