Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and social processes associated with threat. This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Societies under threat: a pluri-disciplinary approach. She is currently oriented towards meaning construction and transmission through art and religion, giving attention to the imaginary dimension of social representations. She has published many books and articles, of theoretical and empirical nature, on social representations, pointing particularly on the fields of madness and mental health, body, health, memory. Her work has led her to establish stretch collaborative relations with diverse universities in Europe, Latin and South America, Asia and Africa. She has taken the direction of this Laboratory after its founder, Serge Moscovici.
Social psychologist, specialized in the study of Social Representations she has directed various programs of research and doctoral thesis (particularly in the domains of environment, health, memory, religion and arts) in the Laboratoire de Psychologie sociale of the Ehess. Elle a publié plusieurs ouvrages, chapitres d’ouvrage et articles sur les représentations sociales de la folie et de la maladie mentale, du corps, de la santé, de la mémoire collective.ĭocteur es-Lettres, Denise Jodelet is Directeur d’Etudes (Emeritus) at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Moscovici, et en collaboration avec plusieurs pays d’Europe et d’Amérique Latine. Psychologue sociale spécialisée dans l’étude des représentations sociales, elle a dirigé divers programmes de recherche et travaux de thèses (notamment dans les champs de l’environnement, de la santé, de la mémoire sociale) menés au sein du Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale de l’Ehess, dont elle a assuré la direction après S. Directeur d’Etudes (émérite) à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales.