1. Acerca de la génesis de la representación social de la vejez.
- Author
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Monchietti, Alicia and Sánchez, Mirta Lidia
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CHILDREN & older people , *PERCEPTION in children , *DEVELOPMENTAL psychology , *SOCIAL perception , *OLDER people & society - Abstract
This paper discusses the results of preliminary research on the representation of old age in children and teenagers. The conjunction of theoretical contributions from social psychology, social representational theory, and developmental psychology allows us to think about the way in which children assimilate the beliefs shared by the community. From a Piagetian approach, the subject builds the object of knowledge conferring different meanings according to each intellectual stage, but also in terms of the meanings assigned by social discourse. This research contributes to the discussion on a problem still open to debate regarding the social construction of knowledge, i.e., how children build and assimilate socially shared knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008