Author/Editor		Vec, Tomaž
Title		Socialne in kolektivne predstave
Translated title		Social and collective representations
Type		članek
Source		Anthropos
Vol. and No.		Letnik 31, št. 1-3
Publication year		1999
Volume		str. 247-67
Language		slo
Abstract		As distinguised from social psychology developed inthe United States and orientated in particular to the methodology and study individual attitudes, beliefs, practices, or as defined by Jaspers, that was "more psychologically orientated" (Jasper s, 1986, p. 12), the European social psychology was concentrated especially on the content and study of social groups and their influence on social behaviour(Hayes, Orrell, 1998, p.410, Augostinos and Walker, 1996, p. 99, Hogg and Voughan, 19998, pp. 32-34, Cartwright, 1997, pp. 3-18), or it was "more sociologic orientated", as characterised by Jaspars (ibidem). In searching for the expalnations of the relationship between the individual and social enveronment, the so-called contemporary social psichology often attempts to solve dilemmas by introducing some new conceptual starting points. However, "because of the unexplained motivation basis" (quoted from Bečej, 1995, p. 26), these do not present "the esential conceptual turning points". Moreover, introducing new terminology sometimes just contributes to the multipled, inexact, inconsistent use of even those notions which have already been adequately defined (such as terminilogy concerning the models of social influence - Vec, 1998, pp 13-18). As for the assumption that the European social psychology (Hayes, Orrell, 1998, p. 410) has been developed through the following three theories: social represented theory, social identity theory and some aspects of attribution theory and some aspects of attribution theory, we shall examine inthis article the first one, which to our opinion contributes some important innovations, in particular regarding the clarification and differentiation between the socio-psychological and the "individual" - psichological. (Abstract truncated at 2000 characters).
Descriptors		INDIVIDUALITY SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL GROUP PROCESSES SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION SOCIAL CHANGE