Interculturality in Institutions: Symbols, Practices and Identities (1st ed. 2022) (Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783031126260

Related ISBNs:

9783031126253

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

01/20/23

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Politics and Government, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Marilena Fatigante

Edited by:

Cristina Zucchermaglio

Edited by:

Francesca Alby