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The traditional approaches in political science or public administration science, respectively aiming at crisis or conflict , pay attention in general to psychological or institutional mechanisms to the possible discord among social actors. But this article shows, through a longitudinal analysis of French AIDS policies during 1982-1994, that the development of any social conflict and political crisis can be analysed in the semantic viewpoint : being a result of social interaction, policy change permit to observe that the rise and fall of different conflicts among various social groups depend on perception and representation of social actors who are able to calculate and pursue a strategic goal. A definitional approach, recently developed in a constructivist perspective, is hereby proposed to test this hypothesis. And, as empirical data, 14 years of press archives (mainly Le Monde) as like 345 AIDS related administrative or political decisions are analysed.