Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2023-11-19 DOI:10.1111/jtsb.12398
Ross Wallace, Susana Batel
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To understand social issues and practices such as those related to climate change and technological change that are clearly future-oriented – collectively experienced events that are “not yet” – and co-constructed by different actors, we need nuanced conceptualizations of how people think about, negotiate and co-create futures that allow us to understand not only what people (can) think and do about future-related issues but also how that happens, what for and with which implications. However, so far, one of the key theoretical approaches that has conceptualised how people make meaning in situations of change and uncertainty – the socio-psychological social representations theory (SRT) – has not often engaged with the future or with different forms of temporality. By contrast, the French pragmatic sociology of engagements and critique (PS) has engaged with these notions, conceptualising them in relation to materiality and a plurality of moral orientations – two dimensions often seen as key to how collective futures are made and imagined. To offer a more nuanced and systematic conceptualization of how people represent the future and with what consequences, this paper will present, compare and synthesise SRT and PS, as a first step towards an interdisciplinary research agenda on social change and representations of the future.

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代表个人和共同的未来:社会表征理论与参与的实用社会学之间的见解和新联系
为了理解与气候变化和技术变革相关的社会问题和实践(这些问题和实践明显面向未来--集体经历 "尚未发生 "的事件--并由不同参与者共同构建),我们需要对人们如何思考、协商和共同创造未来进行细致入微的概念化,使我们不仅能够理解人们(能够)对与未来相关的问题想什么、做什么,而且能够理解这些问题是如何发生的、对哪些方面有影响、产生了哪些影响。然而,迄今为止,将人们如何在变化和不确定的情况下创造意义概念化的主要理论方法之一--社会心理学社会表征理论(SRT)--并不经常涉及未来或不同形式的时间性。与此相反,法国的参与和批判实用社会学(PS)则涉及到了这些概念,并将其与物质性和道德取向的多元性联系起来进行概念化--这两个方面通常被视为集体未来如何产生和想象的关键。为了对人们如何表述未来及其后果进行更细致、更系统的概念化,本文将介绍、比较和综合 SRT 和 PS,作为迈向社会变革和未来表述跨学科研究议程的第一步。
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期刊介绍: The Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour publishes original theoretical and methodological articles that examine the links between social structures and human agency embedded in behavioural practices. The Journal is truly unique in focusing first and foremost on social behaviour, over and above any disciplinary or local framing of such behaviour. In so doing, it embraces a range of theoretical orientations and, by requiring authors to write for a wide audience, the Journal is distinctively interdisciplinary and accessible to readers world-wide in the fields of psychology, sociology and philosophy.
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