TOWARD AN EXPLORATORY STUDY ABOUT SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF HOMOPARENTAL AND HETEROPARENTAL FAMILIES
Following the socio-genetic field of social representations, this work aims to identify social representations of homoparental and heteroparental families within a social context of debate about the possibility of opening medically assisted procreation (MAP) to lesbian couples in France. We use Alceste program to make an analysis of textual data concerning internet users’ comments about this theme. This analysis shows that social representations of homoparental and heteroparental families are built with figures of adoption and sterility on the one hand, and the figures of couple and love on the other hand.