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Title: The cultural milieu and the symbolic universes of European Societies
Other Titles: Symbolic universes in time of (post) crisis
Authors: Salvatore, Sergio
Avdi, Envrinomy
Battaglia, Fiorella
Bernal-Marcos, Marcos Jose
Buhagiar, Luke Joseph
Ciavolino, Enrico
Fini, Viviana
Kadianaki, Irini
Kullasepp, Katrin
Mannarini, Terri
Matsopoulos, Anastassios
Mossi, Piergiorgio
Rochira, Alessia
Sammut, Gordon
Santarpia, Alfonso
Veltri, Giuseppe Alessandro
Valmorbida, Antonella
Keywords: Cultural observatories -- Cyprus
Cultural observatories -- Denmark
Cultural observatories -- Estonia
Cultural observatories -- France
Cultural observatories -- Germany
Cultural observatories -- Greece
Cultural observatories -- Italy
Cultural observatories -- Malta
Cultural observatories -- Netherlands
Cultural observatories -- Spain
Cultural observatories -- Great Britain
Culture
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Citation: Salvatore, S., Avdi, E., Battaglia, F., Bernal-Marcos, M. J., Buhagiar, L. J., Ciavolino, E., ... & Valmorbida, A. (2019). The cultural milieu and the symbolic universes of European societies. In S. Salvatore, V. Fini, T. Mannarini, J. Valsiner. G. A. Veltri (Eds.), Symbolic Universes in Time of (Post) Crisis (pp. 53-133). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Abstract: The chapter reports the main findings of the analysis of cultural milieus of 11 European countries (Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom) carried out within the framework of the Re.Cri.Re. research program (cf. www.recrire.eu). More particularly, these findings concern: the lines of semiotic force comprising the cultural space of the countries and the symbolic universes that are active within it. The chapter is broken up into three parts. Firstly, the method is presented; secondly, the results are reported. Finally, the results are discussed in their meaning and implications. The view of culture as a semiotic field under pinning the variability of the trajectory of sensemaking (cf. Chap. 2) leads us to map it in terms of phase space. A phase space is a space in which each dimension describes a component of the variability of the set of objects being investigated. For instance, if one wanted to describe a certain set of objects—say, cars—one can do it in terms of a 3-dimension phase space with colour, price, and horsepower as dimensions. Each car will correspond to a point of the phase space defined by the values of the three parameters (i.e. colour, price and horsepower). In the analysis of the cultural milieu, each dimension of the phase space represents one line of semiotic force. This derives from how the line of semiotic force is conceived—i.e. as a factor fuelling the variability of the individual sensemaking. Accordingly, the phase space of the cultural milieu (hence forth, semiotic space) maps the whole variability of the trajectories of individual sense making enacted within the cultural milieu.
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