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collective representations

the institutions, laws, symbols, rituals, and stories that embody a society’s key concepts and values and its sense of itself as a distinct community with its own identity and way of life. [introduced by Émile Durkheim]

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May 10th 2024

social psychology

social psychology

as defined by Gordon W. Allport, the study of how an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by the actual, imagined, or symbolically represented presence of other people. Psychological social psychology differs from sociological social psychology in that the former tends to put greater emphasis on internal psychological processes, whereas the latter focuses on factors that affect social life, such as status, role, and class.