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Interviews...

 

Within the framework of the program " The audiovisual archives of research in social sciences", you can visualize three recent interviews with social psychologists working within the LEPS.

- Serge Moscovici : Le regard psychosocial

- Ivana Markova : Trust and Democracy

- Celso Pereira de Sa : Social memory of the discovery of Brasil


  Le regard psychosocial

A recent interview of Serge Moscovici (with Juan Antonio Pérez) entitled " le regard psychosocial ".

Themes of the interview (accompanied with their duration in minutes and seconds):

  • Serge Moscovici's presentation by Juan Pérez ( 02:48 )
  • Foundations of social psychology ( 07:45 )
  • The figure of the Foreigner or the relation of a majority to a minority ( 07:24 )
  • The fundamental role of the mechanisms of production and distribution of social knowledge (06:32)
  • The importance of interactions in the polarization of social knowledge ( 03:27 )
  • The society: a thinking interactive structure (07:05)
  • Outside the dominant model (08:45)
  • About the theory of the innovation of active minorities (08:21)
  • A method of non-directive and exclusive experiment (04:05)
  • The necessity of a consideration of the importance of language (05:22)
  • Around questions on integration - assimilation (10:33)
  • Towards a devaluation of life (09:05)


   Trust and Democracy

Prof. Ivana Markova talks (with Birgitta Orfali) about her group of research on "Trust and Democracy in Representations and Discourses : a socio-psychological approach".

Themes of the interview (accompanied with their duration in minutes and seconds):

  • The background of the project (07:14)
  • The main collaborators in the project (04:11)
  • The organisation of the work between the collaborators (01:47)
  • Social-psychology : a complex but very important issue (06:43)
  • Two main issues : Trust and Democracy (03:41)
  • About the importance of trust as a cultural concept (07:06)
  • The relations between trust and democracy and the question of totalitarism (03:22)
  • About the question of fear and totalitarism (13:50)
  • A certain lack of changes in social psychology and mentalities (06:25)
  • A product of modernity : the cult of Mao Zedong (03:40)
  • Trust in discourse and communication (21:43)

  Social memory of the discovery of Brasil

Prof. Celso Pereira de Sa (University of Rio de Janeiro), invited this year by the LEPS, talks about his researches.

 

Themes of the interview (accompanied with their duration in minutes and seconds):

  • Intellectual and scientific career ( 05:07 )
  • From behaviourism to social representations ( 06:01 )
  • Two researches on social representations ( 08:18 )
  • Participation in the diffusion of social representations theories in Brazil ( 04:43 )
  • Memory and researches on feelings of the Brazilian and Portuguese populations concerning 1500 (date of Brazil's discovery) (17:00)
  • An actualisation of memory ( 03:47 )
  • Diffusion, propagation and propaganda ( 05:40 )
  • In Brazil, memory in front of two periods of political exception ( 05:43 )