REPREZENTĂRI SOCIALE ALE OMULUI MORAL ÎN ROMÂNIA DE AZI
Social Representations of a Moral Individual in Present Day Romania

Summary/Abstract: Our research sought to identify the social representation of the moral individual in present day Romania, distinct at people who have higher education and people who only graduated high school. The research took place between February and August 2011, in the counties Timiş, Arad, Cluj, and Caraş-Severin. It consisted of three stages. First it was determined the content of social representation, through the method of free associations. The 9 terms noted down with highest frequency have been reunite into a list. In the second stage we sought to identify the place of each term into the content of the social representation, through the ordering method from the list of terms. Then, we determined the relationship between the terms which constitutes the content of social representation through a variant of the method of free association. For the high school graduates, the central node of the social representation is the term fair. It is associated with the terms rarely encountered in our state and responsible. For the people with higher education, the central node of the social representation is the term acting according to principles relating to the truth, good, beautiful. It is associated with the terms appreciated by others for what he is doing, example for others and fair.

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