ABSTRACT
Social representations are of considerable heuristic value for the understanding of human activity. In particular, they permit us to think of the development of representations directly in relation to the engagement of individual and social subjects in their activities; to understand the relations existing between subjects and the representations they make of the context of their actions; to describe the relations between individual and collective subjects in the representations that accompany their activities; and to closely link mental activities, individual and collective, and discursive interactions. What can be said, however, about the conditions under which the production of social representations is organized, and hence the regularities that can be observed?
