Abstract:

E. Márquez & E. Friemel (2005).
Activation des Schemes Cognitifs de Base et Actualisation des
Valeurs Associees au Travail.
Papers on Social Representations, 14, pages 1.1-1.28
[http://www.psr.jku.at/]

This article reports on an attempt to explore the dynamics of three
groups representations of a triplet of social objects: “work,
“employment” and „workless”. We consider the relation between
Social and individual values of work and the activation of Social
Representations taken as independent variable. We show that
actualization of representations of “work”, “employment” and
“workless” guide the choice of oriented-values at work in three
different groups of students. They prefer, in a rational spontaneous
mood, some values than others. To activate and delimitate the
“contours” of social representations, we use the experimental model
of Cognitive Bases Schemes (SCB). We also show that this model
is predictive of social values at work crystallized in a questionnaire
specially constructed for this research.