Plural and Shared: The Sociology of a Cosmopolitan World

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35925-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

We live in a globalized world in which a person in Burkina Faso can identify with Star Wars heroes, and in which a New York trader drinks the same Starbucks coffee as his Taiwanese counterpart. How are individuals socialized in Rome, Bombay, and Tokyo? To answer this question, a unique investigation has been carried out using two scales of analysis usually tackled separately by global studies: the scale of the cosmopolitan world and its global narratives, imaginaries, iconographies; as well as the scale of everyday life and socialization to otherness. This two-fold perspective constitutes the innovative approach of this volume that endeavors to address an operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective and reacts to current debates and new research findings.



With a Foreword by Natan Sznaider.



This book was first published in 2016 as Pluriel et commun. Sociologie d'un monde cosmopolite by Les Presses de Sciences Po, Paris.

Other editions: the book is also published in Italian as Plurale e comune. Sociologia di un mondo cosmopolita by Morlacchi editore, Perugia, 2018; and in Portuguese as Plural e comum. Sociologia de um mundo cosmopolita by Edições Sesc, Sao Paulo, 2018.

*Plural and Shared: The Sociology of a Cosmopolitan World is now available in paperback for individual customers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cicchelli, Vincenzo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition / CAPTURING ALTERITY
COSMOPOLITAN SOCIALIZATION AT ITS CORE

Prologue / COSMOPOLITANISM THROUGH WEAL AND WOE

Introduction / THE COSMOPOLITAN IMAGINATION
UNDERSTANDING A SHARED AND PLURAL WORLD

I - THE DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN WORLD

Chapter 1 / SCALES OF INTERDEPENDENCE
A transnational scalar space
The nation-state in the cosmopolitan world

Chapter 2 / THE MATRICES OF SINGULARITY
The world as a totality and global risks
Apprehending cultural facts in the cosmopolitan world
Cosmopolitan repertoires

Chapter 3 / THE PLACE OF PLURALITY
Contradictory experiences
Threatened by globalization
Promoting cultural identities
Hybridizations
Universalism from plurality

Conclusion to the first part / The universal and the particular tested by globalization

II – COSMOPOLITAN SOCIALIZATION

Chapter 4 / THINKING COSMOPOLITAN SOCIALIZATION
In search of cosmopolitan socialization
Two axes of socialization
Laying the groundwork for a hermeneutics of alterity

Chapter 5 / WHAT IS A COSMOPOLITAN?
Controversies
An alternative

Chapter 6 / THE ELEMENTARY FORMS OF THE COSMOPOLITAN SPIRIT
A self-reflexive process
The cosmopolitan spirit in everyday life
Living as a cosmopolitan: Four areas of field work

Conclusion to the second part / Cosmopolitan socialization and ideal human types
Conclusion / COSMOPOLITAN SOCIOLOGY AS A PROJECT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Vincenzo Cicchelli is Associate Professor of Sociology at Université Paris Descartes and Research Fellow at GEMASS, Université Paris-Sorbonne/CNRS. At Brill, he is the co-editor-in-chief of Youth and Globalization (with Sylvie Octobre), the series co-editor of Youth in a Globalizing World (with Sylvie Octobre), and the series co-editor of Doing Global Studies (with Stéphane Dufoix). He has published (with Sylvie Octobre) Aesthetico-Cultural Cosmopolitanism and French Youth. The Taste of the World (Palgrave, 2018).