Abstract:

Galli, I. & Fasanelli, R. (1995).
Health and illness: a contribution to the research in the field of social representations.
Papers on Social Representations, 4, p. 15-28.
[http://www.psr.jku.at/]

 

The aim of this research is the study of the social representations of Health and Illness through the analysis of its components: information, representation field and attitude. The research includes two different phases where both samples and instruments of analysis are different. In the first phase of the research we chose a qualitative method in order to obtain a "deep analysis" of the two concepts of health and illness. We selected a "mixed technique performance/language", with the purpose of attributing a relative value to the language role. Collected data were processed by content analysis. A quantitative method was utilized in the second phase of the research to integrate the data obtained from the first phase. We chose the method created by Guy Le Bouedec (1979); it allows reconstruction of the plot of social representations of health and illness and their comparison. Collected data were processed by correspondence analysis