Sur les relations entre représentations sociales, pratiques socio-culturelles et comportement

Résumé

Considering the theoretically obligatory genesis of representations, an attempt is made to articulate it with other categories of analysis on a more basic or primordial social level. Social-cultural practices, thought of as highly unconscious and automatic in their daily functioning, are proposed as the original ground for the emergence of social representations. This should occur when a given practice, and social object(s) involved, come to be verbally analyzed by its own practitioners. It is also argued that radical behaviorist distinction between "behavior shaped by contingencies" and "rule governed behavior" could properly account for the psychological or individual substratum of social practices, both in their original automatic character and in their eventual verbal analyzed manner.