Abstract:

Witte, E. H. (1994).
The social representation as a consensual system and correlation analysis.
Papers on Social Representations, 3, p. 47-51.
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This paper discusses the problems with the standard correlation analysis in the context of the research on social representations as consensual systems. Some first steps to find a central tendency of such consensual systems are given. Furthermore, the general problem of two different aspects of a social representation are discussed : its "representativeness" as a qualitative characteristic of a consensual system and its most characteristic reaction on a quantitative reaction scale.