Cohabiting in Multiethnic Community: Forms, Representations and Images of the Diversity
Modern culture, based on disinhibition of cultural trends and on heterodirection, is promoting openmindedness attitudes towards ethnic diversity, but on the other hand also new forms of social representations of the foreigner. Social representation is situated between the psychic field and the social one; it is the representation of oneself and of the other one, hanging between social categories and individual inner world. We will produce the results of a research on the representation of the foreigner, built on the type of prejudice prevailing among middle-low or middle-high educational qualification subjects, in which prejudicial attitudes seem to descend from precise mental images of the foreigner.
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[1] A. Palmonari, "Le rappresentazioni sociali", Giornale Italiano di
Psicologia, vol. 2, 1980, pp. 225-246.
[2] F. Giust-Desprairies, "Le sujet dans la représentation social",
Connexions, vol. 51, 1988, pp. 83-90.
[3] M.-J. Chombart de Lauwe, "Changes in the representation of the child
on the course of social transmission", in R. Farr, and S. Moscovici
(eds.), Social Representations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1984.
[4] G. Mantovani, "Alle origini del pregiudizio", Psicologia
Contemporanea, vol. 135, 1996, pp. 34-43.
[5] G. Attili, "Il nemico ha la coda", Psicologia Contemporanea, vol. 134,
1996, pp. 16-25.
[6] F. Di Maria, and G. Lavanco, "L-individuo, il nomade e il gruppo: la
quarta persona del singolare", in F. Di Maria, and G. Lavanco (eds.), Al
di là dell-individuo. Letture di gruppoanalisi. Palermo: Ila Palma, 1993.
[7] M. Dillon-Weston, "Stranieri e stranierità nel gruppo", in F. Di Maria,
and G. Lavanco (eds.), Nel nome del gruppo. Gruppoanalisi e società.
Milano: FrancoAngeli, 1994.
[8] S. Moscovici, La psychanalyse, son image et son public. Paris: Puf,
1961.
[9] S. Moscovici, "On social representation", in J. P. Forgas (ed.), Social
cognition: perspectives on everyday understanding. London: Academic
Press, 1981.
[10] F. Di Maria, G. Lavanco, and C. Novara (eds.), Barbaro e/o straniero.
Una lettura psicosociodinamica delle comunità multietniche. Milano:
FrancoAngeli, 1999.
[11] A. D. Benner, and S. Graham, "Navigating the Transition to Multi-
Ethnic Urban High Schools: Changing Ethnic Congruence and
Adolescents' School-Related Affect". Journal of Research on
Adolescence, vol. 17 (1), 2007, pp. 207-220.
[12] S. Costarelli, "The Distinct Roles of Subordinate and Superordinate
Group Power, Conflict, and Categorization on Intergroup Prejudice in a
Multiethnic Italian Territory", The Journal of Social Psychology, Vol.
146, 2006, pp. 5-13.
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