Abstract:

Flament, C. (1994a).
Consensus, Salience and Necessity in Social Representations-Technical Note.
Papers on Social Representations, 3, p. 97-105.
[http://www.psr.jku.at/]

 

The results of 7 studies show that among several (quantitatively) very salient traits of an object of social representation, some are (qualitatively) necessary, the others, not. This is made apparent by using a particular kind of questioning, the logic of which is described. The necessary traits are considered as constituting the central core of the social representation.