Representação social: teoria, pesquisa e relevância para a psicologia social

Abstract

This paper presents the main topics of Serge Moscovici's theory about the social representations. It illustrates the several researched topics, the procedures which are used to collect data and the methodological alternatives concerned to their study. The whole paper reflects about the contribution of Moscovici's propositions to produce knowledge in Social Psychology, specially when refering to social cognition.