An important amount of studies investigates food, individuals and groups' relation to food. Some of them convoke the theoretical framework of social representations. These ones refer to structured sets of ideas, opinions, knowledge and beliefs about food shared by a social group, about food, foodstuffs, or related issues. The present contribution highlights the relevance of investigating the interaction between social representations and culture in such works following three main lines, corresponding to three ways to envisage the contribution of SRs to food studies. The first one focuses on the role of SRs in the social construction of meanings attached to food and on their introduction in individuals' and groups' thinking frameworks. This line present the shaping role of culture for representations. The second one is interested in how the sharing of SRs allows identification to the cultural group. This line highlights a lack of experiments and some research perspectives. The third one envisages social representations as predictors of consumers' behaviors. In this line, culture represents an important factor, especially through the individualist versus collectivist cultures. The results and the considerations from these three lines militate in favor of the consideration of culture and cultural variables in food studies using the theoretical framework of SRs. Certainly, the relevance of such a consideration is motivated by the intrinsic theoretical link between SRs and culture, but also shows a great interest when we want to gain a finer grained vision of the phenomenon under study in food research.

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食品研究中的社会代表性和文化。

大量研究调查了食物，个人和群体与食物的关系。其中一些让人联想到社会表征的理论框架。这些是指社会团体共享的有关食物，食物，食品或相关问题的结构化的观念，观点，知识和信念。本文稿强调了按照以下三个主要方面调查此类作品中社会表征与文化之间相互作用的相关性，这三个方面对应着设想SRs对食品研究的贡献的三种方式。第一个重点是社会责任感在与食物相关的意义的社会建构中的作用，以及它们在个人和团体的思维框架中的引入。这条线代表了文化对表征的塑造作用。第二个有趣的是，SR的共享如何使文化群体得以识别。这条线强调了缺乏实验和一些研究视角。第三个设想将社会表征作为消费者行为的预测指标。在这一方面，文化是一个重要因素，尤其是通过个人主义和集体主义文化。这三个方面的结果和考虑因素都有利于使用SR的理论框架对食品研究中的文化和文化变量进行考虑。当然，这种考虑的相关性是由SR与文化之间的内在理论联系所激发的，但是当我们想要对食品研究中正在研究的现象有更细致的了解时，它也表现出了极大的兴趣。