PHENOMENOLOGY OF PERCEPTION AND SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

Social representations mean the modus operandi of the subject in the social environment in which he lives, that is, how each person or group of individuals acts, perceives, understands and communicates to others their own understanding of the entity in question. The ways of representing it socially constitute the social representations. The main objective of this article is to demonstrate how phenomenology operates in perception and social representations, using the philosophical bases of some thinkers as support for the research in question. From the study we carried out in Merleau-Ponty and Moscovici, we concluded that, in fact, we do not start a new process of knowledge every dawn, but we always start from the historical-cultural heritage on which our generation rises. In this sense, we realize that Marková (2017) is right in stating that Moscovici made use of data studied by Merleau-Ponty. Throughout this essay, we tried to discuss and demonstrate some points of proximity and distance between the two theorists, reaching the conclusion that the new process of knowledge does not occur effectively.