Legal Concepts as Social Representations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F24%3A00139342" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/24:00139342 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11320/25:ZC4C8H3T

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-023-10066-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11196-023-10066-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-023-10066-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11196-023-10066-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Legal Concepts as Social Representations

Original language description

The nature of concepts is a subject of study of various disciplines, from philosophy to cognitive sciences, leading to fragmented understandings and conceptual dissociations. Legal concepts have been studied in an interdisciplinary manner across all these disciplines, suffering from similar fragmentation. Recently, the interdisciplinary crossroads between law and cognitive sciences have brought forward the notion of legal concepts as mental representations. However, this approach largely overlooks the systemic, historical, and societal elements essential to comprehending legal concepts. The aim of this paper is to advocate for the Social Representations Theory as a useful framework that bridges cognitive and socio-cultural dimensions of meaning and can provide a holistic approach to understanding legal concepts. This paper unfolds in three sections. The first section contextualizes the social representations approach within the law and language framework, emphasizing the societal influences on thought and meaning. The second section explains the notion of social representations, building upon Serge Moscovici’s definitions and Ivana Marková’s arguments for the necessity of this approach to accommodate the social dimension of meaning. The third and last section underscores the claim that legal concepts are, in essence, social representations, advocating for the usefulness of this approach in legal scholarship, both paradigmatically and methodologically, consequently arguing for an inclusion for a stronger focus on the social dimension of legal meaning.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-10171S" target="_blank" >GA20-10171S: Methods of social representation in analysis of legal concepts</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law-Revue Internationale de Semiotique Juridique

ISSN

0952-8059

e-ISSN

1572-8722

Volume of the periodical

37

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

165-188

UT code for WoS article

001138436900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181890199