Building the Boundaries of a Science: First Representations of Italian Social Psychology between 1875 and 1954 (2011)
Sensales, Gilda (Author)
Areni, Alessandra (Author)
Dal Secco, Alessandra (Author)
History of Psychology
Volume: 14
Pages: 383--404
The present study embraces the critical traditions of New History and of social representations theory articulated with the mainstream historiographical tradition of a bibliometric approach. The historical analysis deals with the early representations of Italian social psychology articulated and disseminated by some of the main Italian scientific-cultural and philosophical journals. We examined seven journals published between 1875 and 1954, and gathered 2,030 texts dealing with the various forms of social and collective psychology. We have applied a grid of content analysis whose data have been transcribed to a numerical file. At the same time, we have created a textual file containing the titles of the contributions as well as the names of the authors and scholars reviewed. The two files have been processed by SPAD-T for a correspondence analysis in which both lexical data and category variables have been considered as active variables. Through the scree-test, two factors that explain 18.90% of the variance have been singled out. Their combination has produced a factorial plan able to highlight three distinct areas differently characterized from journals and years. The results are also discussed with regard to the contextual historical frame. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)
...MoreDescription A statistical analysis of “seven journals [and 2,030 texts] dealing with the various forms of social and collective psychology.” (from the abstract)
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