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All major contemporary social issues involve questions of power, social positioning, identity, and social knowledge construction. The complex interplay between these becomes apparent when one considers examples such as immigration, minority groups, biotechnology, and health. All these examples appear in the present book. The social sciences have researched these issues considerably, so one could reasonably ask what is different about the collection of papers presented here.
We cannot prove that representations exist, we can only demonstrate the power of this concept through the interpretations we can offer of social phenomena. (Duveen 1994, 207)
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Moloney, G., Walker, I. (2007). Introduction. In: Moloney, G., Walker, I. (eds) Social Representations and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230609181_1
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