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- or in relation to a collective social actor: a group or social movement,
a community, an institution, etc.
Figure8.7.
Extractfrom theinterfaceoftheform
“Culturalconstruct,eraandsociety”-firstpart
This form represents a
model of description*
which expresses a definitional
configuration of the domain of knowledge which is doubly remarkable:
-
firstly
, the so-called definitional configuration imposes a
constraint of
presupposition
between two groups of conceptual terms which make it up: certain
conceptual terms (such as those which make up the branch [Social object] in
Figure 8.7) presuppose other conceptual terms (in our example, the
presupposed
conceptual term is [Cultural construct]);
-
secondly
, the same configuration does not impose only one topical structure (as
is the case for the configuration shown in Figure 3.2). The
model of description*
underlying the content analysis form shown in Figures 8.7 and 8.8 instead
