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Communication Of Shared Experience As A Source Of Social Representation

TYRLÍK, Mojmír, Petr MACEK and Štěpán KONEČNÝ

Basic information

Original name

Communication Of Shared Experience As A Source Of Social Representation

Name in Czech

Komunikace sdílených zkušeností jako zdroj sociální reprezentace

Authors

TYRLÍK, Mojmír (203 Czech Republic), Petr MACEK (203 Czech Republic) and Štěpán KONEČNÝ (203 Czech Republic, guarantor)

Edition

2004

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Audiovizuální tvorba

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Mexico

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/04:00012038

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

social representation; communication; action; experience

Tags

International impact
Změněno: 27/11/2006 14:23, Mgr. Štěpán Konečný, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

We can consider the thematisation of a situation that is common and relevant among small group members as a result of a communicated shared experience among the members of a group. On the other hand, thematisation of a generally well-known, but less experienced situation, follow a rather more general core of social representation of an adolescent and a middle-age person. Method and sample There were three groups of research subjects - classmates (65 altogether), aged from 16 to 17. Every class-group came from different grammar schools in the city of Brno. There were not any interactions among participants during examination. The participants were asked to solve two problem situations. The first situation showed a person (man/woman) lying on a street, who may be in a need of help. The second situation presented a person (man/woman) wanting to get a job that is very important for her/him. The two situations were selected under conditions as follow: Adolescents should be familiar with both of these situations but they have to have different factual contact with one and the other. These should be applicable to different social-class groups or age groups. The first need of help dilemma shows a situation, which is well-known but unusual in everyday life. It is dealt with more in media than experienced in a life. On the other hand, the second job-seeking situation is more common among students. It shows competition in achievement of a position or status. We expected that many aspects of competitive job-seeking situation are more frequent in everyday life of grammar-school students and it is more communicated and experienced among them than the out-group helping situation. Each of these three groups of classmates was further divided into three subgroups by chance. The task for these subgroups differed in a person who should act in these two problem situations. Members of the first subgroup described their own possible action; members of the second subgroup described action of their friend and finally members of the third subgroup presented what they would expect as an action of a middle-age person (man/woman). We have applied the method of thematic analysis (Tyrlik, Macek, 2002) to analyze written solutions of situations. All solutions were analyzed in order to find the main thematic dimensions of social representation, which create a background of respondents understanding of the situation. Our results support our assumption that the core of social representations and their peripheries participate on individual representations differently, depending on both subjective familiarity and in-group familiarity of the situation. The communication of common experience, obtained within familiar and relevant situations, takes the thematisation away from the general core of social representations and introduces variability to their periphery.

In Czech

Tematizaci urité situace , která je spolená v rámci malé skupiny, mžeme chápat jako výsledek komunikace v této skupin. Oproti tomu takové situace, které jsou obecn známé (nap. z TV), ale zkušenost s nimi je relativn malá, jsou tématizovány spíše na základ obecného "jádra" sociálních reprezentací. Metoda: Ti skupiny (spolužáci) ve vku 16 a 17 let z tech rzných škol v Brn jsme požádali, aby ešili dv problémové situace. Jednotliví probandi nemohli pi ešení spolupracovat. První situace prezentovala osobu lezící na zemi, která potebovala pomoc. Druhá situace prezentovala lovka, který chtl získat pracovní místo, které pro nj bylo velmi významné. Odlišnost tchto situací spoívala: Ob situace byly respondentm dobe známé, ale zatímco první z nich byla spíše mediáln známá, druhá situace se v urité podob dotýkala každého probanda (pijetí na stední školu. Naše výsledky potvrzují, že situace, která je bližší osobní zkušenosti proband je komunikována a tématizována odlišn jednotlivých skupinách tídních kolektiv, zatímco tématizace druhé situace je obecnjší a nezávislá na komunikaci v rámci malých skupin.

Links

GA406/04/0611, research and development project
Name: Důvěra v procesu jednání v interpersonálních situacích
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Trust in process of action within interpersonal situations