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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. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102457 |
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