The first consists of systems of representations and attitudes; they refer to all the familiar phenomena of social or racial prejudice, stereotypes, beliefs, etc. They express a social representation that individuals and groups are formed to act and communicate. It is these representations that give physical form to this reality and imaginary half is social reality. With regard to the phenomena of social communication, they …show more content…
The first is that the mere presence of an individual or group to which an individual choice or learn more easily and less original family responses, while the second is an individual under the pressure of an authority or a group adopted the opinions and behaviors of that authority or group. This leads to define more precisely the way they may consider Alter (individual or group) to analyze the relationship with reality, with social or social, real or symbolic object. We are either similar to an Ego or Alternaria either to a different, an Alter no more. Depending concerned of the first or second considers different phenomena. The two fundamental psychosocial mechanisms, the social comparison and social recognition, are two ways of perceiving the other in the social field. The author highlights two epistemological obstacles: the first is the fairly widespread opinion according to which must be added a spiritual supplement to social phenomena. This means that you should explore the subjective aspect of the events of objective reality. By objective reality we must understand the economic and social reality, then we return to the social psychology and is asked to understand what people think and feel. The second obstacle keeps perfect symmetry with the first. It is known that psychology studies staggering phenomena: perception, reasoning, anxiety, child development, etc., but studies on the isolated individual, as if he were autistic. Moscovisi also notes that the individual to be isolated no longer belong to a group, a social class, and their reactions are influenced by this