Publication details
Sociální reprezentace smrti u pracovníků onkologického oddělení
| Title in English | Social Representations of Death of Personnel in the Oncology Department |
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| Year of publication | 2002 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Československá psychologie: Časopis pro psychologickou teorii a praxi |
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| Keywords | social representations, death, common sense |
| Description | The source of this article is a diploma thesis (Hytych 2001), that has been exposed at the Department of Psychology at the FSS MU. The purpose of mentioned thesis and this article is to establish the grounded theory of Social Representations of Death. Research design, in the context of the oncology department, was based on the theory of social representations (Moscovici 1984; Wagner 1994, 1995) and on the methodology approach of grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin 1999). The theory of social representations is focused on shared images about relevant social object, in another words "familiar" ways of thinking and acting of specific groups. The fundamental research question is: which images about death we share, witch ways of thinking and acting are offered by our common sense? A person constructs his (her) own Personal Representations of Death (PRD) through procedure of accepting them from Society Representations of Death, of which content is tied to given socio–cultural context. Growing PRD are checked by the personal experience process. The result of this process can be either accepting or rejection of the PRD. In case the PRD are rejected, the procedure of delimitation is activated. That caused change of the present PRD. The whole process can be incorporated in the concept of genesis of PRD, which determines individual types of PRD shared by the people. Geneses can be understood as the journey leading to conviction, that structure is dependent partly on the way of PRD geneses and partly on socio–cultural context of the given person (group). |