Overview
- Examines the intercultural dimension as inherent in people's interpretative actions
- Explains how societal and institutional forces are manifested in people's creative adjustments to cultural phenomena
- Includes data from intercultural contexts in Italy, Brazil, France, and USA
Part of the book series: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action (CPMSUSA)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Language and Culture at Institutional Borders: Reflecting About (Inter)Cultural Practices and Identities at Individual and Community Level
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Negotiating Culture in the Medical Context
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Children Negotiating Culture
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Keywords
- Interculturality
- Interdisciplinary perspectives on intercultural experience
- Language in institutions
- Qualitative methodology
- Social action and members’ experience
- Situated perspectives in social psychology
- Agency and identity
- Meaning-making practices
- Institutional contexts
- Participation and cultural change
About this book
This book provides qualitative analyses of intercultural sense making in a variety of institutional contexts. It relies on the assumption that in an increasingly culturally diverse world, individuals often enter contexts that have communal, historically determined and stable sets of values, norms and expected identities, with little cultural compass to find their bearings in them. The book goes beyond interpreting differences in people’s ethnic or linguistic roots and discusses instead people’s interpretive efforts to navigate different sociocultural situations. The contributors examine such situations in educational, organizational, medical and community settings and look at how participants with different levels of sociocultural competences (such as, migrant patients, migrant adult learners, children) try to cope with institutional constraints and expectations, how they understand symbols, practices and identities in institutional contexts,and how their creative adjustments come to light.
This book provides insights from the fields of psychology, education, anthropology and linguistics, and is for a wide readership interested in cultural meaning-making.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marilena Fatigante is Associate Professor in Social Psychology at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. She is an expert in the study of social interaction in natural settings carried out by means of ethnography, recording, and transcription practices. Her research interests include the study of interaction in healthcare settings (particularly, oncology), ethics in the participant-researcher relationship, interaction in educational contexts. Her publications have been published in Social Science & Medicine, Written Communication, Sociology of Health and Illness, and focus on formulating treatment proposals, literacy practices during oncological visits, and uncertain scenarios in the oncology visits.
Cristina Zucchermaglio is Full Professor of Social Psychology at Sapienza University, where she is Head of the Interaction & Culture Laboratory (LInC). She specializes in ethnography-based field studies of social interaction and organization of cognition in everyday settings, such as school, families, high-tech companies, sports teams, children’s homes and hospitals. Her recent research articles on medical communication and reasoning have been published in the Journal of Cancer Education, Sociology of Health and Illness, Mind, Culture and Activity, Social Science & Medicine, Written Communication, and Patient Education and Counselling.
Francesca Alby is Associate Professor of Social Psychology at Sapienza University. She specializes in qualitative, ethnographically informed, studies of groups, communication, social interaction and action in workplaces and everyday settings. Her recent research focused on communication practices in healthcare settings and has been published in the Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Science & Medicine, Written Communication, and Patient Education and Counselling, Journal of Cancer Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interculturality in Institutions
Book Subtitle: Symbols, Practices and Identities
Editors: Marilena Fatigante, Cristina Zucchermaglio, Francesca Alby
Series Title: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12626-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12625-3Published: 26 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12628-4Published: 26 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12626-0Published: 24 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7306
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 311
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Personality and Social Psychology, Social Anthropology, Sociology of Culture, Semiotics