Social Schemas, Representations & Categorisation Flashcards
What are social representations?
Social ideas create thoughts
What are social schemas?
Individual experience creates thoughts
What is a social construction?
Social ideas are shared “stories”?
What are event schemas?
Appropriate sequences of action in well known everyday activities
What are person schemas?
Schemas about what people are like regarding their personality traits, goals and intentions
What is a stereotype?
A kind of role schema that organises people’s expectations about other people who fall into social categories
What are the 5 schema domains?
Disconnection and rejection Impaired autonomy and performance Impaired limits Other directedness Over vigilance and inhibition
What two key roles of social representations are there?
Conventionalise: blue and pink
Prescriptive: tradition which decrees what we think
What is anchoring?
Taking the new and making it ordinary
What is objectification?
The transformation of abstract to concrete. E. G. So,Rome who fancies same gender objectified as lesbian
What 4 assumptions does the Social Constructionist orientation have?
- A critical stance taken toward knowledge
- Knowledge is sustained by social processes
- Historical and Cultural Specificity
- Knowledge and action go together
A limitation of the social schema approach is that it ignores ….., which the Social Representation Theory (SRT) does take into account
The moral dimension
