La psicología social en España: estructuras de comunidades.

Abstract

This study forms part of a ‘social psychology of science” (Domènech, Íñiguez, Pallí y Tirado 2000; Iñiguez y Pallí, 2002; Moscovici, 1993; Shadish & Fuller, 1994; Shadish & Neimeyer, 1989). Social psychology’s contribution to the social understanding of science and technology is in its study of the interactional and social factors involved in the production of scientific knowledge, exploring the idea that knowledge is the product of joint endeavour. In the work reported here we take Social Psychology itself as the object of study. Specifically, we subject Social Psychology in Spain to a historical analysis, analysing its characteristics, identifying its development and describing its practices. To do so, we follow practices established in the short legacy social psychology of science. We use both social network analysis (SNA), for its acknowledged utility in the study of scientific communities, and bibliometrics, for what it tells us about the structure of scientific publication. We present an analysis of the papers presented at the eight Social Psychology conferences held in Spain between 1982 and 2000.

Keywords

• Social Psychology - Social Network Analysis – Bibliometry - Scientific Comunities.