Abstract
The article describes the scientific and social aspects of the functioning of the scientific school created by S. Mosсoviсi, revealing various forms of this association: a research team, a scientific direction, an invisible college. The authors focus on the possibility of studying social representations through the inclusion of new analytical methods in the diagnostic toolkit, in particular, iconographic documents and images of a social object, which indicates the current stage of the functioning of S. Mosсoviсis scientific school. The formation of social representations not only through verbal associations but also through drawings is explored by the authors through the example of how adolescents develop their social representations of a scientist. The purpose of this study is to highlight the categorical features of the image of a scientist in modern Russian adolescents, identified using the DAST drawing technique. The hypothesis of the research is the assumption that the system of social representations of a scientist among Russian adolescents contains both stable indicators of a persons belonging to the professional scientific community and variable contextual elements of the scientists image, whereas the degree of expression and the ratio of stable and contextual elements reflect the characteristics of the scientists image in domestic respondents. The Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) technique was used as the main diagnostic tool aimed at identifying adolescent representations of a scientist based on iconographic associations.The obtained drawings were analyzed by the expert evaluation method, involving the procedures of correlation and factor analysis. The results of the study show that Russian adolescents generally have a stereotypical representation of a scientist associated with the use of general indicators of external appearance, which determine the professional affiliation of the character depicted. Differences were found in the frequency of using stable and contextual iconographic elements of drawings. It has been shown that it is possible to use the drawing technique as a diagnostic tool for identifying social representations of a scientist based on an analysis of the meaning of an object through its iconographic fixation.
Highlights
The authors focus on the possibility of studying social representations through the inclusion of new analytical methods in the diagnostic toolkit, in particular, iconographic documents and images of a social object, which indicates the current stage of the functioning of S
The formation of social representations through verbal associations and through drawings is explored by the authors through the example of how adolescents develop their social representations of a scientist
The purpose of this study is to highlight the categorical features of the image of a scientist in modern Russian adolescents, identified using the Draw-A-Scientist Test (DAST) drawing technique
Summary
Исследование образа ученого в контексте концепции социальных представлений Сержа Московиси. Гипотеза исследования состоит в предположении о том, что система социальных представлений об ученом у российских подростков содержит как устойчивые показатели принадлежности человека к профессиональному научному сообществу, так и вариативные контекстные элементы образа ученого, а степень выраженности и соотношение устойчивых и контекстных элементов отражают характеристики имиджа ученого у отечественных респондентов. Проведенный теоретический анализ показал наличие устойчивых, повторяющихся, имеющих характер стереотипа, категорий представлений об ученом у подростков и разнообразие альтернативных, контекстных единиц оценки визуального образа ученого, что также нашло свое подтверждение в осуществленных ранее исследованиях на российской выборке с применением методики DAST, выполненных в других контекстах (Володарская, Разина, Фролова, 2017; Volodarskaya, Razina, 2018). Гипотеза исследования состояла в предположении о том, что система социальных представлений об ученом у российских подростков содержит как устойчивые индикаторы принадлежности человека к профессиональному научному сообществу, так и изменчивые контекстные элементы образа ученого, а мера выраженности и соотношение устойчивых и контекстных элементов отражает особенности образа ученого для отечественных респондентов
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