El proceso de individuación de las representaciones sociales: Historia y reformulación de un problema

the aim of this paper is to clarify the process by which individuals transform social representations while appropriating them and the way in which social representations influence on individual actions. specifically, we will try to answer the following questions: which are the characteristics of this process? is it about active or passive internalization? is it possible to study the concept of individuación (individuation) of social representations from a psychological point of view, regarding the concept itself and its formulation by social psychologies or is it necessary to reformulate it? does the study of this process involve some kind of interdisciplinary activity? for this purpose, we shall raise the theoretical developments of two contemporary exponents of psychology. on one hand, duveen (2001) deals with the problem from the view of social psychology, appealing to developmental psychology as an instrument and he thinks of individuation amid interpersonal relationships. in this way he remarks that social representations do not act with regard to isolated individuals, but they rather act in pare interaction situations, resulting in the intervention of social and individual restrictions. however he is not able to specify the individuation process of social representations because he cannot adopt the child's point of view, in the way in which developmental psychology does. on the other hand, valsiner (2003) deals with this problem from the perspective of developmental cultural psychology, focusing on the regulation of the flow of intrapersonal experience. his aim is to overcome the static version of social representations that have prevailed in empirical research. from his disciplinary perspective he considers social representations as social semiotic mediation artifacts, that enable individuals to pre-adapt to future events, making the experience of stability possible and integrating future anticipations of future and memories of the past. so, social represent