Ivana Markova
Biographic Data
| ID | 89544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivana Markova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivana |
| FAMILY NAME | Markova |
| SIGNATURE | MARKOVA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0094-5912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 335 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Conflict and Change
Social and developmental psychology are often viewed as distinct subdisciplines, each with its own theories and methodologies. However, this book seeks to bridge that divide by proposing an integrative framework that considers various levels of analysis, from the individual to the societal. It emphasizes the interplay of fundamental concepts such as intra- and inter-group conflict and change across these levels. By revisiting and renewing foundat…
A dialogical perspective of interaction
The Making of a Dialogical Theory
Creating a stimulating social theory with long-lasting influence for generations of scholars is driven by multiple interacting factors. The fortune of a theory is determined not only by the author's creative mind but also by the ways in which principal concepts are understood and interpreted. The proper understanding of a social theory requires a good grasp of major historical, political, and cultural challenges that contribute to its making. Con…
Making of a Dialogical Theory
Apparel and interiors student perceptions of class engagement, class motivation, and job preparedness
This mixed‐method study analyzed student perceptions of engagement, motivation, and job preparedness in online courses. Results indicate that interior design students felt more engaged than apparel students. In addition, apparel student motivation and sense of job preparedness were lower than those of interior design students. Engagement and motivation are critical factors affecting learning. Students felt overall they were more engaged in synchr…
Conclusion
In this conclusion to the special issue on The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, we, the authors, reflect back on our dialogue with the philosopher’s text. Our reflexion has two main parts. First, we emphasise transversal themes – themes that most triggered our interrogations and that we as psychologists, all addressed in our separate papers: thinking, of course, but also Arendt’s views on dialogue, her conception of time and temporality, and mo…
Dialogue with The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind is an intriguing unfinished book written by Hannah Arendt, known as a political philosopher, at the very end of her life in 1975. We devote this Special Issue of Culture & Psychology to this work, because we are convinced that it raises interesting and important questions for social and cultural psychology today. In this Introduction to the Special Issue, we first explain why we believe that this book deserves closer attentio…
Willing and action
Why did Hannah Arendt, in her book on The Life of the Mind, select thinking, willing and judging as the basic faculties of the mind in preference to some others which might be equally plausible? Why did she conceptualise these three faculties as autonomous, each being an activity with its own features, self-motivation and self-determination? If willing is necessarily bound with freedom, what does it indicate about the constraints of freedom in po…
Body Ideals of Undergraduate Women and the Proliferation of Social Media
The authors conducted a study to examine women’s body dissatisfaction, social comparison, and thin‐ideal internalization in relation to exposure to social networking sites. Additionally, women’s body dissatisfaction, social comparison, thin‐ideal internalization, and exposure to social networking sites were examined in relation to their ethnic backgrounds. A survey was completed by 725 females enrolled in undergraduate programs at California Stat…
Chronotopes
Dialogical single case studies involve mutually interdependent relations between humans in their real locations and in real time (here-and-now). Mikhail Bakhtin explored such relations in terms of chronotopes, i.e. as indivisible units serving as analytical tools for the study of dynamic processes in literature. We argue that chronotopic thinking also serves as an epistemological and ethical organising principle of human activities in daily think…
Introduction to the special issue on generalisation from dialogical single case studies
Drawing on historical, theoretical and cultural knowledge, this introduction explains and justifies the importance of generalisation from dialogical single case studies. We clarify the meaning of dialogism and dialogicality, differentiate between single case studies and dialogical single case studies, identify the dynamic and ethical features of dialogical single case studies, and articulate the problem of generalisation as it pertains to this to…
Social psychology as a developmental discipline in the dynamics of practical life
Gustav Jahoda’s research on children’s development of ideas and concepts constitutes a fundamental contribution to social psychology as a developmental and cultural discipline. Jahoda conceived humans in their interdependent relations with socio-cultural and historical environments in which they live, attain knowledge and act. Jahoda’s research on the diversities of thought and agency in children was the subject of meticulous conceptual and metho…
Across culture, mind and history
This editorial highlights the contributions of Gustav Jahoda to cross-cultural and cultural psychology. Gustav’s broad and deep scholarship, focusing on culture, mind and history, crossed disciplinary boundaries of psychology, anthropology and sociology in his attempts to understand human psyche and concrete activities in various situations and locations. Gustav’s legacy is inspirational for human and social scientists who search for ‘the establi…
Giving voice’
Journal for the Theory of Social BehaviourVolume 47, Issue 3 p. 279-285 COMMENTARY 'Giving voice': opening up new routes in the dialogicality of social change Ivana Marková, Corresponding Author Ivana Marková [email protected] Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA United Kingdom Correspondence Ivana Marková, University of Stirling, Psychology, Stirling FK9 4LA, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] for more p…
Effects of academic and non-academic instructional approaches on preschool English language learners’ classroom engagement and English language development
This research compared the relative impact of different preschool activities on the development of bilingual students’ English-language skills. The study investigated whether bilingual preschool children would engage more, and use more of their second language (English), during free-play (non-academic) versus teacher-structured (academic) activities. The researcher utilized both quantitative and qualitative research approaches; data sources inclu…
Dialogical Mind
Dialogue has become a central theoretical concept in human and social sciences as well as in professions such as education, health, and psychotherapy. This 'dialogical turn' emphasises the importance of social relations and interaction to our behaviour and how we make sense of the world; hence the dialogical mind is the mind in interaction with others - with individuals, groups, institutions, and cultures in historical perspectives. Through a com…
Representations, Social Psychology of
Objectification in Common Sense Thinking
In epistemologies of both scientific and common sense thinking “objectification” characterizes the formation of knowledge and concepts, yet in each case its meaning is different. In the former, objectification in acquiring knowledge refers to the individual's rationalistic reification of an object or of another person and to disengagement or alienation. Formation of concepts refers to the attainment of common features of persons, objects, or even…
Americanization’ of European Social Psychology
I am delighted to have an opportunity to respond to Sandra Schruijer’s thoughtful article ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology?’ She raises important questions connecting ‘the ambitions and activities’ of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) and the contemporary state of affairs of the Association, wondering whether – or to what extent – these ambitions have been fulfil…
Method and Explanation in History and in Social Representations
Trust and Conflict
Series Editor's Foreword. Markova & Gillespie, Preface. Markova: Conflict and Trust in Dialogical Perspective. Part I: Symbolic Systems And Basic Trust. Hosking, Trust and Symbolic Systems: Religion and Nationhood. Wertsch & Batiashvili, Mnemonic Communities and Conflict: Georgia's and National Narrative Template. Valsiner, The Dynamics of Trust and Non-Trust. Part II: From Categorisation To Social Representation. Rubini & Palmonari, Different an…
A Dialogical Perspective of Social Representations of Responsibility
The Epistemological Significance of the Theory of Social Representations
The theory of social representations must be understood in terms of its proper epistemology so that it can accomplish its full potential in social sciences. This is often difficult to achieve because researchers comprehend it in terms of concepts that are part of static and individualistic Newtonian epistemology rather than in terms of dynamic and relational Einsteinian epistemology. This article considers three signposts that Moscovici identifie…
Persuasion and Propaganda
This paper aims to show that propaganda and persuasion are underlined by two forms of communication, one aiming at a monologue, and the other aiming at a dialogue, which in practice do often coexist, with one or the other prevailing at a particular time. In order to understand propaganda or persuasion, we need to study them as part of the systems (e.g. institutions, organizations, communication) to which they belong, rather than treat them as dec…
Persuasion and Social Psychology
This editor's introduction to the issue recalls the main methodological approaches to persuasion, rhetoric and propaganda in social psychology. It summarizes the classical theories issued from Hovland's Yale Communication Program in experimental social psychology, like dissonance, attitude changes, inoculation approach, elaboration likelihood model. Yet there are, today, competing perspectives on persuasion, which turn attention to the meaning of…
Theory and Method of Social Representations
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity. Six empirical studies are presented and details of their methods and findings are given to illustrate this social psychological approach. These studies are about the ontogenesis of gender, the public sphere in Brazil, madness on British television, images of androgyny in Switzer…
Presenting Social Representations
Serge Moscovici's theoretical system of social representations is by now nearly 40 years old; yet, today, various social psychological activities surrounding this field seem to flourish more than ever; much research into social representations is being carried out all over Europe and on other continents; there is a European PhD programme on social representations and communication; there is an association and a network on social representations; …
The Epistemological Significance of the Theory of Social Representations
The theory of social representations must be understood in terms of its proper epistemology so that it can accomplish its full potential in social sciences. This is often difficult to achieve because researchers comprehend it in terms of concepts that are part of static and individualistic Newtonian epistemology rather than in terms of dynamic and relational Einsteinian epistemology. This article considers three signposts that Moscovici identifie…
Constitution of the Self
The polysemic nature of intersubjectivity stems not only from diverse pursuits and goals but also from different ontologies of intersubjectivity. More specifically, the four matrices described by Coelho and Figueiredo (2003) imply two ontologies: 'I-Other(s)' and 'I' versus 'Other(s)'. These ontologies lead to different concepts of communication. In the former case, communication is based on the idea of attunement and fusion of the minds. In the …
Representations, Concepts and Social Change
Acts in Discourse
Towards an Epistemology of Social Representations
On the Interaction of Opposites in Psychological Processes
Qu’est-ce que les focus groups
Cet article définit, dans un premier temps, les focus groups et explique leurs principes, ainsi que l’histoire qui sous-tend leur utilisation. Les liens existant entre les focus groups et la théorie psychosociologique des représentations sociales sont soulignés. Sont discutées, dans un second temps, les questions de recueil et de conduite de tels groupes ainsi que les questions conceptuelles, pratiques et éthiques impliquées par ces recherches. E…
Method and Explanation in History and in Social Representations
Coding Elementary Contributions to Dialogue
Self- and other-awareness of the risk of HIV/Aids in people with haemophilia and implications for behavioural change
East–West European Project
The Dialogical Turn
Langage et communication en psychologie sociale
Contrairement à d’autres méthodes de recherche comme les questionnaires, les entretiens individuels, les enquêtes etc., qui sont détachées de la communication quotidienne, les focus groups sont une méthode de recherche fondée sur la communication de groupe. Les focus groups permettent de développer des méthodes de recherche qui s’articulent aux dynamiques de la communication, du langage et de la pensée. Dans les focus groups, les participants con…
Giving voice’
Journal for the Theory of Social BehaviourVolume 47, Issue 3 p. 279-285 COMMENTARY 'Giving voice': opening up new routes in the dialogicality of social change Ivana Marková, Corresponding Author Ivana Marková [email protected] Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA United Kingdom Correspondence Ivana Marková, University of Stirling, Psychology, Stirling FK9 4LA, United Kingdom Email: [email protected] for more p…
Americanization’ of European Social Psychology
I am delighted to have an opportunity to respond to Sandra Schruijer’s thoughtful article ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology?’ She raises important questions connecting ‘the ambitions and activities’ of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP) and the contemporary state of affairs of the Association, wondering whether – or to what extent – these ambitions have been fulfil…
Persuasion and Propaganda
This paper aims to show that propaganda and persuasion are underlined by two forms of communication, one aiming at a monologue, and the other aiming at a dialogue, which in practice do often coexist, with one or the other prevailing at a particular time. In order to understand propaganda or persuasion, we need to study them as part of the systems (e.g. institutions, organizations, communication) to which they belong, rather than treat them as dec…
Language and Authenticity
It is argued that the analysis of language should play a central role in the study of social psychological phenomenon. For example, there is evidence that habitual inauthenticity in the use of language which was practised in the Eastern and Central European totalitarian systems was partly related to the breakdown of moral principles and to the loss of identity. Using two sentences, ‘Proletarians of the whole world – unite’ and ‘The Bororo are ara…
Effects of academic and non-academic instructional approaches on preschool English language learners’ classroom engagement and English language development
This research compared the relative impact of different preschool activities on the development of bilingual students’ English-language skills. The study investigated whether bilingual preschool children would engage more, and use more of their second language (English), during free-play (non-academic) versus teacher-structured (academic) activities. The researcher utilized both quantitative and qualitative research approaches; data sources inclu…
On problems of context and attribution in verbal reasoning
Investigated the effect of the verb on inferences in reasoning tasks with conditionals. Subjects were 60 pupils, both male and female, aged 17 to 18 years. Six verbs (buy, have, understand, ignore, hate, avoid) served as independent variables in conditional tasks consisting of two premises. The results which are statistically, highly significant, show an effect due to the verb depending upon the logical form of the task (2Î = 86.1, df= 30). indic…
On the Interaction of Opposites in Psychological Processes
Representations, Concepts and Social Change
Quality of Life for People with Learning Difficulties Moving to Community Homes
Research concerning people with learning difficulties who have left institutions has typically investigated how well people ‘adapt’ to life in the community, and has often ignored users' own perceptions of the changes in their quality of life resulting from the move. In this study, eight people with learning difficulties who moved from a hospital and seven people who moved from parental homes to live in staffed homes in the community were intervi…
Self- and other-awareness of the risk of HIV/Aids in people with haemophilia and implications for behavioural change
Unawareness Without Ignorance
Comparison of sexual behaviour and risk of HIV transmission of Scottish inmates, with or without a history of intravenous drug use
The sexual behaviour and intravenous drug use (IVDU) of a sample of 559 inmates (480 males and 79 females) was investigated. Sexual behaviour and IVDU prior to imprisonment, during imprisonment, and that expected after release, was assessed. Alterations in sexual behaviour as a means of HIV risk reduction was also assessed in relation to IVDU status. Prior to imprisonment most IVDUs and non-IVDUs engaged in unprotected intercourse. Sexual behavio…
Acts in Discourse
Concern, perceived risk and attitudes towards HIV/Aids in Scottish prisons
Four hundred and eighty male prisoners and 500 male staff from 7 Scottish prisons took part in a study assessing perception of risk and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS. Prison staff were found to perceive prison as a higher-risk environment for HIV/AIDS than outside prison, whereas prisoners perceived the opposite. Prisoners perceived less personal risk of HIV/AIDS inside prison than staff. Staff and prisoner concern towards HIV/AIDS was greater than …
Lay Representations of Democracy
While the term 'democracy' has existed in political a and philosophical vocabularies since classical Athens, representations of democracy by laypeople are relatively more recent. Lay representations of democracy are likely to be formed, maintained and changed by both implicit and explicit processes. Some features of lay representations are deeply seated and transmitted across cultures; others are shaped by the already existing thinking schemata; …
Coding Elementary Contributions to Dialogue
Towards an Epistemology of Social Representations
'Concerning memory deceptions'
The Individual and the Community
The Meanings of the Community and of the Individual in Slovakia and in Scotland
The purpose of this paper was to examine meanings of the terms ‘individual’, ‘the community’ and ‘local community’ in Slovakia and Scotland. The social, cultural, political and economic histories of these two small European nations are quite different. Slovakia is one of the post-communist countries in which rapid changes have recently taken place. In contrast, Scotland has enjoyed a relatively stable parliamentary democracy within the UK. Two gr…
The Individual and the Community
Individualism, collectivism and communitarianism can only be understood in their historical and cultural contexts. The author discusses a post-communist perspective on the relationship between the individual and the community. Stressing the complementary nature of the two terms, the author reviews the pre-communist history of the idea of community in the countries of Central Europe. She also discusses individualism as an expression of humanism in…
Language and Authenticity
It is argued that the analysis of language should play a central role in the study of social psychological phenomenon. For example, there is evidence that habitual inauthenticity in the use of language which was practised in the Eastern and Central European totalitarian systems was partly related to the breakdown of moral principles and to the loss of identity. Using two sentences, ‘Proletarians of the whole world – unite’ and ‘The Bororo are ara…
Social representations of the individual
Social representations of the individual are examined in three post-Communist Central European nations, i.e. the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and in three West European nations, i.e. Scotland, England and France. All six nations share a common European history since the Renaissance and Humanism, based on such values as freedom, agency, individual rights and individual responsibility. Many of these values were rejected by the Communist re…
Presenting Social Representations
Serge Moscovici's theoretical system of social representations is by now nearly 40 years old; yet, today, various social psychological activities surrounding this field seem to flourish more than ever; much research into social representations is being carried out all over Europe and on other continents; there is a European PhD programme on social representations and communication; there is an association and a network on social representations; …
Theory and Method of Social Representations
This paper gives an overview of social representation theory, definitions of the key terms and of the social processes leading to a representation and to social identity. Six empirical studies are presented and details of their methods and findings are given to illustrate this social psychological approach. These studies are about the ontogenesis of gender, the public sphere in Brazil, madness on British television, images of androgyny in Switzer…
The Individual and Society in Psychological Theory
The first part of this article examines the ontological and epistemological presuppositions of various theories concerned with the interdependence between the individual and society. It shows that the majority of theories, namely those of the `constructivist turn', tend to reverse to ontologies which separate the individual and society into two independent units. They cannot, therefore, adequately examine the dynamic relationships between the ind…
Perspectivity in dialogues involving people with cerebral palsy
Constitution of the Self
The polysemic nature of intersubjectivity stems not only from diverse pursuits and goals but also from different ontologies of intersubjectivity. More specifically, the four matrices described by Coelho and Figueiredo (2003) imply two ontologies: 'I-Other(s)' and 'I' versus 'Other(s)'. These ontologies lead to different concepts of communication. In the former case, communication is based on the idea of attunement and fusion of the minds. In the …
Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe
The ten chapters in this book are concerned with theoretical and empirical analyses of trust and distrust in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. The contributors come from different disciplines, ranging from history, economics, and political science to social psychology and sociology, and they show, above all, that the Soviet ‘bloc’ was in fact a rich spectrum of different countries with diverse histories, culture…
Langage et communication en psychologie sociale
Contrairement à d’autres méthodes de recherche comme les questionnaires, les entretiens individuels, les enquêtes etc., qui sont détachées de la communication quotidienne, les focus groups sont une méthode de recherche fondée sur la communication de groupe. Les focus groups permettent de développer des méthodes de recherche qui s’articulent aux dynamiques de la communication, du langage et de la pensée. Dans les focus groups, les participants con…
Sociology (41 works) · Psychology (40 works) · Epistemology (25 works) · Social Representations and Identity (25 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Political science (21 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social science (17 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 works) · Dialogical self (13 works)