Recognition as a process of communicative interaction: Elements for a reflection from a public health perspective/El reconocimiento como proceso de interacción comunicativa: elementos para una reflexión desde la salud pública

The aim of the reflection proposed in the following pages is to return operational recognition practices in the fold of complex communication situations centred on reciprocity. The proposed epistemological perspective is that of socioconstructivist social psychology. The theoretical-methodological framework is that of the Social Representations. Starting from the role of the actors involved in the process, the paper describes the three different kinds of variables that, in the opinion of the authors, influence mutual recognition: the psychological variables, the cognitive variables and the social variables. The dimensions underlying each of the variables considered are analysed in detail, underlining the possible effects on the social practices related to them. These clearly show that the multiple influences that come into play in the "communicative situation" of recognition, produce a clearly complex and largely predetermined reality by reciprocal systems of representation of the other, of the task and of the situation.