Alexis Ferrand, « Redes heterogéneas de discusión y pluralismo cognitivo », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.ucdqgf
: This article deals with relationships that allow cognitive exchange cycles where actors confront their thinking and ways to define the world in order to -often but not always- achieve consensus. Discussion relations about a specific topic can be a privileged empirical field. But theoretical interpretations must take into account, on the one hand, the fundamental fact that represent “null” discussion networks, that is, when it is impossible to discuss a certain topic, and on the other hand, the complexity of regulation principles that allow discussion in a specific type of relation. The “regulation triangle” model suggests that all relation is constrained by a combination of regulations. These combinations can function within a homogeneous cultural context, but an actor belonging to heterogeneous contexts could end up having contradictory opinions or thoughts on the same object. A theoretical model of relationship labeling of cognitions is proposed to explain how cognitive inconsistencies remain tolerable. Methodological propositions are exposed to study these contexts.