المحترف
Volume 12, Numéro 1, Pages 471-481
2025-03-30

Social Representations (reading On The Subject)

Authors : Gassaa Khawla . Ouchenene Hakima .

Abstract

The concept of representation is a fertile and promising approach to the social sciences, this concept with its epistemological charge, tries to access the details and the depths of the social construction, to demonstrate and understand the symbolic connotation of the social action of the individual since the latter uses different meanings and connotations according to various cognitive domains of which it has been used. This concept thus occupied a privileged place in the old philosophical system, as in Marxist literature where it was directly associated with the traditional sociological corpus with Emile Durkheim, and more recently with European and French sociology with Serge Moscovici. Considering its importance in social research, and since it contributes to our perception of the external environment, through communication, exchange and interaction with others, it gives a global vision, It is generated by the knowledge and belonging of the individual to different social groups and refers to a type of social thinking by which the individual transmits and acquires beliefs of knowledge, values that give it connotations that allow it to share the same representation and perception of things and subjects. That is why this article came to determine the starting point of the concept of representation up to the theory of the central core.

Keywords

representation, social representations, central core, peripheral system, Central system.