How is the economic crisis socially assessed?
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Roland-Lévy, Christine, Kmiec, Ruxanda and Lemoine, J. 2016. How is the economic crisis socially assessed? Social Science Information. 55 (2), pp. 235-254. https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018416629228
Authors | Roland-Lévy, Christine, Kmiec, Ruxanda and Lemoine, J. |
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Abstract | Based on the Social Representation Theory, the purpose of this article is to explore how lay-people consider both the economic crisis and risk, and to link these social representations to behavior. The article offers an original approach with the articulation of two studies about the social construction of risk and crises. It also contributes to the development of research methods for studying the connections between representations and practical implications. Based on this, the impact of the social representation of the crisis on the perceived ability to act is approached. The first study focuses on free-association tasks, with two distinct target terms: ‘risk’ and ‘crisis’. The structural approach, with a prototypical analysis, allowed the identification of two different representations: (1) for risk, ‘danger’ is the central element; (2) for crisis, ‘economy’ and ‘money’ constitute the main components of the representation. The second study investigates the links between the two previously detected structures and their relations with the perceived ability to act in a financial crisis context. Some aspects of social knowledge were found to have an impact on perceived ability to act. |
Journal | Social Science Information |
Journal citation | 55 (2), pp. 235-254 |
ISSN | 0539-0184 |
Year | 2016 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018416629228 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0539018416629228 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 08 Feb 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 04 Dec 2018 |
Copyright information | As accepted for publication in Social Science Information: Roland-Lévy, Christine and Kmiec, Ruxanda and Lemoine, Jérémy (2016) ‘How is the economic crisis socially assessed?’, Social Science Information, 55(2), pp. 235-254. Copyright © 2016 The authors. DOI: 10.1177/0539018416629228 |
License | All rights reserved |
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