Aesthetic social representations and concrete dialogues across boundaries: Toward intergenerational CHARACTERization

In this paper, I present Bertoldo and Castro’s (2019) epistemological limits in relation to Moscovici’s and propose to develop some of Moscovici’s dynamic aspects. Because Bertoldo and Castro (2019) refer to Boulanger and Christensen’s (2018) work—which aims to schematize the representation processes at different levels of abstraction and develop an aesthetic theory of social representations with respect to Simmel—as a dialogical response, I use this same framework to criticize and push further their effort of extending SRT with regard to the subjective dimension. Bakhtin’s work will be partially used to support my arguments and establish the basis for a dialogical model of aesthetic representation as CHARACTERization. I will quickly illustrate the theoretical propositions regarding the analysis of intergenerational practices in Quebec (Canada), thereby introducing the concept of intergenerational CHARACTERization.