Vulnerabilities

2.5. Social Representations2.5. Social Representations “Systems of values, ideas and practices”simultaneously creating a system of order, are ableto offer a person the possibility to get familiar withthe social and material world. The communicationwithin a community offers a code of common socialinterchange, where several aspects of life, personaland collective history are classified withoutambiguity (Moscovici, 1976: xiii). Therefore, social representations originate in dailylife, where society is the thinking and acting system. The theory of social identity establishes a continuumbetween personal and social identity with aprocessual, relational, multidimensional, contextualand essentialist character.