Symbolic Universes In Time Of Post Crisis

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Viviana Fini,Terri Mannarini,Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030194970

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Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post)Crisis by Sergio Salvatore,Viviana Fini,Terri Mannarini,Jaan Valsiner,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri Pdf

This book investigates whether, how and where the cultural milieu of European societies has changed as a result of the socio-economics crisis. To do so, it adopts a psycho-cultural approach, which views the cultural milieu as a set of meanings, placing the generalized image social actors have of themselves, the world, events and their relationships in the context of the socio-political and institutional environment, including policies. By analyzing the changes in cultural milieu and social identity, the book develops strategic and methodological guidelines for the design of post-crisis policies, providing a concept of how the cultural dynamics are associated with certain individual characteristics and specific socio-economic phenomena.

Author : Marco Cremaschi,Carlotta Fioretti,Terri Mannarini,Sergio Salvatore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030719678

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Culture and Policy-Making by Marco Cremaschi,Carlotta Fioretti,Terri Mannarini,Sergio Salvatore Pdf

This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.

Author : Terri Mannarini,Giuseppe A. Veltri,Sergio Salvatore
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030360993

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Media and Social Representations of Otherness by Terri Mannarini,Giuseppe A. Veltri,Sergio Salvatore Pdf

This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri,Terri Mannarini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031219955

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Methods and Instruments in the Study of Meaning-Making by Sergio Salvatore,Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri,Terri Mannarini Pdf

This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It focuses on the methodological and empirical aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to policymaking and to the understanding of social phenomena. It covers culture-based segmentation, ad hoc survey instruments like the VOC and PROSERV questionnaires, discourse flow analysis, the Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement, and others. It also presents a detailed discussion of the methodology of cultural analysis in contexts of health and education. The volume showcases a top-down approach by including quantitative methods and/or automatized or semi-automatized procedures, and at the same time supports a hermeneutic, bottom-up, abductive approach, focused on the situated dynamics of meaning-making. It provides insights from cultural studies, social statistics, social policy, and research methodology in the social sciences. This is a useful resource for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers who are interested in cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.

Author : Sergio Salvatore,Barbara Cordella
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040013236

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Foundations of the Psychological Intervention by Sergio Salvatore,Barbara Cordella Pdf

Foundations of the Psychological Intervention presents a new General Theory for Psychological Intervention (GTPI), delving into how its methodology can be applied across diverse psychological contexts. Rooted in semiotic cultural psychology and guided by the GTPI framework, this book offers a cohesive perspective of psychology, addressing the prevailing fragmentation evident in various domains of psychology such as health, sports, forensic, organisational, and clinical psychology. The framework establishes a foundation of methods and techniques that render psychological interventions applicable across various domains, substantiated by concrete examples from different areas. With chapters revolving around theories of action, change and the client dynamics, this groundbreaking work provides both a conceptual and methodological structure to underpin domain-specific theories and methodologies, thereby strengthening the conceptual links among distinct domains of psychology. As one of the first works to develop a theory and method of intervention across multiple psychological domains, this book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers specialising in cultural psychology, clinical psychology, health psychology, and the philosophy of psychology. Moreover, it serves as a useful reading for practising psychologists and psychology professionals.

Author : Norman K. Denzin,James Salvo
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781975505233

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Qualitative Research in the Time of COVID by Norman K. Denzin,James Salvo Pdf

Qualitative Research in the Time of COVID: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Presented During a Pandemic focuses broadly upon educational issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters make note of how contextual understandings are important for the future of researchers, especially when those contexts involve inequality made more acute since the pandemic. The chapters illustrate the importance of creating a climate of care based upon the principles of care ethics, and also examine projects that could be taken in the context of necessary self-care during challenging times. Chapters address the climate of caring in both in-person and online educational spaces and what it means to support students in an expanded conception of classroom space. In discussions ranging from exemplars of arts-based, personal narrative to completing a dissertation during a pandemic, chapters share both the immensity of the challenges and the rewards of productive and meaningful work both domestically and internationally. In the context of the living taking place after the pandemic’s coming into being as an event, this volume humbly offers writings as documents of remembrance of our historical present, offering with the hope that the historical may continue to move forward with an ethics of care ever in the foreground. Qualitative Research in the Time of COVID is perfect for such courses as Qualitative Research, Qualitative Inquiry, Ethnography, Teacher Education, Action Research, and Educational Research.

Author : Katrin Kullasepp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315519593

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On Becoming a Psychologist by Katrin Kullasepp Pdf

On Becoming a Psychologist explores the professional identity construction of psychology students, examining their entry into the psychology profession from a socio-cultural perspective. The book brings together socio-cultural approaches and Dialogical Self Theory to gain comprehensive insight into the developmental processes behind the formation of professional identity. It conceptualises the process of becoming a psychologist as an intrapersonally and interpersonally unique semiotic process of self-regulation that unfolds through dialogical relations with the individual’s socio-cultural surroundings. Building on empirical research, the book outlines the results of a longitudinal study of a cohort of psychology students throughout their studies and following their graduation. The study sheds light on how professional role expectations are negotiated between the different aspects of the self, with a particular focus on how the self is positioned throughout the course of professional education. Offering a unique perspective on the socio-cultural construction of professional identity, this book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and graduate students in the fields of cultural psychology, applied psychology and social psychology.

Author : Jussi P. Laine,Daniel Rauhut,Marika Gruber
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803927695

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Assessing the Social Impact of Immigration in Europe by Jussi P. Laine,Daniel Rauhut,Marika Gruber Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Focusing on the social impact of migration, this book explores migration as an inevitable part of rural development and transition in light of the sharp political divides in European and national political arenas on the topic. It provides an innovative immigration impact assessment based on recently conducted empirical work to enhance local development in European rural and remote regions, looking to promote change in the perception of migration and related policies and practices.

Author : Dimitris Serafis
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027253279

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Authoritarianism on the Front Page by Dimitris Serafis Pdf

This volume offers a critical discursive-argumentative framework that scrutinizes the discursive construction and, moreover, the argumentative justification of authoritarian attitudes on newspaper front pages in highly polarized times of multiple ‘crises’ in Greece. At the same time, it aspires to outline novel research avenues for scholars working in the fields of critical discourse and argumentation studies, multimodality and communication studies, that go beyond the study of the meaning potential of multimodal artifacts and focus on the study of the argumentative inferences that are triggered by multimodal discourses in polarized contexts. It frames the theoretical discussion based on concepts such as Nikos Poulantzas’ ‘authoritarian statism’ as well as Antonio Gramsci’s ‘hegemony’ and ‘intellectuals’. Methodologically, it draws on the agenda of multimodal critical discourse analysis, integrating principles and tools from social semiotics and (multimodal) argumentation studies with a particular focus on inference in argumentation.

Author : Ivana Marková
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781009294973

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The Making of a Dialogical Theory by Ivana Marková Pdf

Creating a stimulating social theory with long-lasting influence for generations of scholars is driven by multiple interacting factors. The fortune of a theory is determined not only by the author's creative mind but also by the ways in which principal concepts are understood and interpreted. The proper understanding of a social theory requires a good grasp of major historical, political, and cultural challenges that contribute to its making. Considering these issues, Marková explores Serge Moscovici's theory of social representations and communication as a case study in the making of a dialogical social theory. She analyses both the undeveloped features and the forward-moving, inspirational highlights of the theory and presents them as a resource for linking issues and problems from diverse domains and disciplines. This dialogical approach has the potential to advance the dyad Self–Other as an irreducible intellectual, ethical, and aesthetic unit in epistemologies of the human and social sciences.

Author : Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1595 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031259104

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Handbook of the Anthropocene by Nathanaël Wallenhorst,Christoph Wulf Pdf

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality. These researchers also sought to define a historical and prospective anthropology that integrates social, economic, cultural and political issues as well as, of course, environmental ones. What are the anthropological changes needed to ensure that our human adventure will be able to continue in the Anthropocene? And what are the educational and political issues involved? Anthropocene is fast becoming a widely-used term, but thus far, there been no reference work explaining the thoughts of the greatest experts of the present day on this subject (at the intersection of biogeophysical and socio-political knowledge). A scientific and political concept (but which is also the conceptual vehicle for conveying the scientific community's sense of concern), this complex term is explained by international experts as they reflect on scientific arguments taking place in earth system science, the social sciences and the humanities. What these researchers from different disciplines have in common is a healthy concern for the future and how to prepare for it in the Anthropocene and also the identification of possible anthropological changes. This Handbook encourages readers to immerse themselves in reflections on the human adventure through descriptions of our differing heritages and the future that is in the process of being written.

Author : Joanna Sokolowska,Peter Ayton,Eduard Brandstätter
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889715022

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Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Psychological Reactions to the Pandemic by Joanna Sokolowska,Peter Ayton,Eduard Brandstätter Pdf

Author : Tobias G. Lindstad,Erik Stänicke,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030430665

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Respect for Thought by Tobias G. Lindstad,Erik Stänicke,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

This book explores and provides an overview of the Norwegian psychologist Jan Smedslund's life work on Psycho-logic. His contributions to science have been radical not only in challenging the empirical foundation of psychology, but also in seeking to develop a viable alternative. This book brings together various reflections on his key contributions from the 1960s to the present day. The volume features three chapters by Jan Smedslund, offering his updated views on psychological science and psychotherapy. It also features contributions from several scholars that critically evaluates his legacy. His seminal ideas are discussed, revised and expanded upon and the questions raised are put in relevant historical and interdisciplinary context. Respect for Thought is a valuable resource for psychological researchers, historians of psychology, cultural psychologists, critical psychologists, theoretical psychologists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists, social scientists, philosophers of psychology, and philosophers of science.

Author : Brady Wagoner,Bo Allesøe Christensen,Carolin Demuth
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783030778927

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Culture as Process by Brady Wagoner,Bo Allesøe Christensen,Carolin Demuth Pdf

Jaan Valsiner has made numerous contributions to the development of psychology over the last 40 years. He is internationally recognized as a leader and innovator within both developmental psychology and cultural psychology, and has received numerous prizes for his work: the Alexander von Humboldt prize, the Hans Killian prize, and the Outstanding International Psychologist Award from the American Psychological Association. Having taught at Universities in Europe, Asia and north and south America, he is currently Niels Bohr professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. This book is the first to discuss in detail the different sides of Valsiner’s thought, including developmental science, semiotic mediation, cultural transmission, aesthetics, globalization of science, epistemology, methodology and the history of ideas. The book provides an overview, evaluation and extension of Valsiner’s key ideas for the construction of a dynamic cultural psychology, written by his former students and colleagues from around the world.

Author : Daniele Conversi,Lorenzo Posocco,Iarfhlaith Watson
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832546390

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Beyond the Frontiers of Political Science: Is Good Governance Possible in Cataclysmic Times? by Daniele Conversi,Lorenzo Posocco,Iarfhlaith Watson Pdf

Over the last 10 years, political science has produced a vast amount of research on the impact of climate change and related existential disasters on existing political institutions. Hundreds of articles and books have been written on the environmental state, the green state, environmental governance, sustainable institutions and so on. However, no research in this field can prosper without a strong input from other disciplinary areas, particularly the natural sciences. Climate change is a complex and challenging set of interlinked events, phenomena and resulting problems and so it defies the usual disciplinary boundaries. The only way to progress and tackle these is by harnessing the entire apparatus of human knowledge and going beyond the frontiers of what we already know, while envisioning new scenarios and institutional forms.