Themata, A Visible Presence within Social representations
Themata, A Visible Presence within Social representations

Summary/Abstract: Right from the beginning, what was implied by thêrnata were-those preconceptions in science that involve dyads or triads such as: analysis/continuum, simplicity/complexity, evolution/involution, analysis/synthesis or steadfastness/evolution/catastrophic change. Such an approach, according to specialists, seen1s to be in a proper relationship with the dialectics of the investigative approach, dialectics which, at all times, was seeking consensus between two or more opposingideational constructions. In time, it was found that thêmata is strongly anchored, not only in the field of scientific thinking, but also in that of common sense. However, psycbosociologists say that "common sense is, by its nature, profoundly antinomic, and the antinomies that make up the mental activities of humans, such as the formation of concepts, language meanings and images, can be present in human thinking for a very long time". Examples of such antinomies in the common sense are the ones like we/they, freedom/oppression, human/anti-hun1an or fear/hope. Ultimately, thêmata must be seen in the form of taxonomies of opposing nature that directly influence both scientific thinking and non-scientific/naive/street thinking, opening or blocking their evolutionary paths.

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