Social representations and the development of knowledge Edited by Gerard Duveen Department of Education, University of Cambridge and Barbara Lloyd School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne SydneyPublished by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge ‘The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1990 First published 1990 Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge British Library cataloguing in publication data Social representations and the development of knowledge. 1. Children. Development L Duveen, Gerard Il. Lloyd, Barbara 155.4 Library of Congress cataloguing in publication data Social representations and the development of knowledge/edited by Gerard Duveen and Barbara Lloyd. pe ca Based on papers from a symposium which was held at the 1987 Annual Conference at the British Psychological Society. Includes indexes. ISBN 0 521 36368 3 1. Social perception in children — Congresses. 2. Social perception — Congresses. 3. Social role— Congresses. I. Duveen, Gerard. II, Lloyd, Barbara B. (Barbara Bloom), 1933- IIL British Psychological Society. Conference (1987: Brighton, England) BF723.S6S66 1990 155.4 18—de20 89-3178 CIP ISBN 0 521 36368 3 urN w& a a a Contents List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Gerard Duveen and Barbara Lloyd The underlife of the nursery school: young children’s social representations of adult rules William A. Corsaro A semiotic analysis of the development of social representations of gender Barbara Lloyd and Gerard Duveen Children’s representations of social relations Nicholas Emler, Jocelyne Ohana and Julie Dickinson Social representations of childhood: an implicit theory of development Maria D’ Alessio What is in an image? The structure of mothers’ images of the child and their influence on conversational styles Luisa Molinari and Francesca Emiliani page vii ix xi xiii 1 eee 47 70 91