Knowledge in Context: Representations, Community and Culture

by Sandra Jovchelovitch

Book Overview

This book explores the relationship between knowledge and context through a novel analysis of processes of representation. Sandra Jovchelovitch argues that representation, a social psychological construct relating self, other and object-world, is at the basis of all knowledge. Understanding its genesis and actualisation in individual and social life explains what ties knowledge to persons, communities and cultures. It is through representation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415287340
• ISBN13: 9780415287340
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"