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Abstract
The purpose of the article is to discuss the cultural hindrances and assets that promote constructive self-to-others relationships and active citizenship. Building on Carl Schmitt's friend-enemy distinction, we argue that in contemporary societies the public and the private dimensions of the enemy have conflated, as the result of two concurrent phenomena: the politicization of otherness and the privatization of enemies. An integrated framework including approaches of social psychology and semiotic cultural psychology is proposed to account for both phenomena. The notions of symbolic universes and semiotic capital are introduced as key concepts to understand the current socio-political dynamics and to promote fairer, more inclusive societies.

Introduction -- Part I: The identity-otherness dynamics -- Chapter 1. Identity, otherness, and sociocultural dynamics (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 2. Theories and methods (Alessia Rochira) -- Part II: Maps of Otherness -- Chapter 3. Immigration (Giuseppe A. Veltri) -- Chapter 4. Islam (Gordon Sammuta) -- Chapter 5. LGBT (Alina Pop) -- Part III: Symbolic resources for the representation of otherness -- Chapter 6. The semiotic construction of Otherness (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 7. An interpretative model: Semiotic fields and semiotic forces (Sergio Salvatore) -- Chapter 8. Implications for policy-making and further developments (Giuseppe Veltri).

Cover -- Series page -- Multicentric Identities in a Globalizing World -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Self-Regulation by Signs -- SECTION I: Pluralism of Personal Anchorages -- CHAPTER 1: Gender Identity in Intersex Adults -- CHAPTER 2: Successive Ruptures in Maternal Identity -- CHAPTER 3: Health Professionals Die Too -- SECTION I COMMENTARY: Modern Qualitative Approach to Psychology -- SECTION II: Identity in Movement Through Context -- CHAPTER 4: Identity and Organizations -- CHAPTER 5: Through the Professional Role to the World of New Meanings -- CHAPTER 6: Family Business Dynamics -- CHAPTER 7: Being Online -- SECTION II COMMENTARY: The Identity as a System of Translation of the Boundary Between Subject and Context -- SECTION III: Generalized Multiplicity -- CHAPTER 8: Sustaining Identity Change Through the Use of Symbolic Resources -- CHAPTER 9: Negotiating Identities in Immigrant Families -- CHAPTER 10: Representations and Social Belonging -- CHAPTER 11: Performing Ethics at Identity Crossroads -- CHAPTER 12: Territorial Identity and Immigration -- CHAPTER 13: Dynamics of Identity Re-Definitions among Refugees -- SECTION III COMMENTARY: Being on the Move -- About the Contributors.

This volume develops a theoretical framework for the modelling of meaning-making and cultural processes as crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It focuses on the methodological and empirical aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to policymaking and to the understanding of social phenomena. It covers culture-based segmentation, ad hoc survey instruments like the VOC and PROSERV questionnaires, discourse flow analysis, the Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement, and others. It also presents a detailed discussion of the methodology of cultural analysis in contexts of health and education. The volume showcases a top-down approach by including quantitative methods and/or automatized or semi-automatized procedures, and at the same time supports a hermeneutic, bottom-up, abductive approach, focused on the situated dynamics of meaning-making. It provides insights from cultural studies, social statistics, social policy, and research methodology in the social sciences. This is a useful resource for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers who are interested in cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies

Part I: Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 1. The Meaning of Meaning (Sergio Salvatore ) -- Chapter 2. Sensemaking Between Individuals and Society (Terri Mannarini) -- Part II: The Content of Sensemaking -- Chapter 3. The Challenges of Cultural Segmentation: New Approaches from Social Data Science (Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri) -- Chapter 4. The Map of Symbolic Universes and Lines of Semiotic Force: The View of Context (VOC) Questionnaire (Enrico Ciavolino) -- Chapter 5. The Themes of Texts: The Automatic Co-Occurrence Analysis for Semantic Mapping (ACASM) (Alessandro Gennaro) -- Part III. The Dynamics of Sensemaking -- Chapter 6. The Discourse Dynamics: The Discourse Flow Analysis (DFA) (Alessandro Gennaro) -- Chapter 7. The Dimensionality of Sensemaking (Johann Kleinbub) -- Part IV. Sensemaking and Affective Meaning -- Chapter 8. The Mediational Role of the Affective Meaning (Terri Mannarini) -- Chapter 9. The Homogenizing Role of Affective Meaning: The Homogenization of Classification Functions Measurement (HOCFUN) (Mauro Cozzolino) -- Part V. Sensemaking in Context -- Chapter 10. Cultural Values in Community Research (Terri Mannarini) -- Chapter 11. The Perception of the Service: The PROSERV Questionnaire (Enrico Ciavolino) -- Chapter 12. Logics of Value Constructions (Emanuela Ingusci) -- Chapter 13. Meaning and Education (Anastassios Matsopoulos) -- Chapter 14. Meaning and Policy (Carlotta Fioretti) -- Chapter 16. Making Sense to the Clinical Relationship (Claudia Venuleo) -- Part VI. Discussion -- Conclusion.

PART I. Framework -- Chapter 1. The meaning of culture and the call for policies of cultural development -- Chapter 2. Cultural theories and Policies -- PART 2. Field explorations -- Chapter 3. What to do. Cultural and symbolic components of place-based policy for migrants' inclusion -- Chapter 4. Innovation and institutions: Reframing policies and the culture of local administration -- Chapter 5. Economic policies as a driver of cultural development -- Chapter 6.The dialectic between demand and supply in welfare domain. How does policies can survive in context of high personality intensity -- Chapter 7. How, where and when culture matters. A meta-analysis of the case studies -- Chapter 8. Conclusions: culture and the need to re-politicize policy making -- PART 3. Discussion.-Chapter 9. Commentary.

The relationship between sense of community (SOC) and citizen participation has been extensively studied in community psychology. Connecting Social Representations and SOC theory, this study explored the lay meanings of citizen participation and its association with SOC. A word association task and a measure of territorial SOC were administered to 390 participants, and data analyzed to explore the contents of the social representations of citizen participation conveyed by the interviewees and their salience. Results revealed that different levels of SOC were associated with variations in the social representation of citizen participation. Specifically, among high-SOC participants the notion of formal political participation prevailed, while among low-SOC participants a more articulated vision emerged, encompassing social and community participation, and also conventional and non conventional types of participatory behaviors.

The relationship between sense of community (SOC) and citizen participation has been extensively studied in community psychology. Connecting Social Representations and SOC theory, this study explored the lay meanings of citizen participation and its association with SOC. A word association task and a measure of territorial SOC were administered to 390 participants, and data analyzed to explore the contents of the social representations of citizen participation conveyed by the interviewees and their salience. Results revealed that different levels of SOC were associated with variations in the social representation of citizen participation. Specifically, among high-SOC participants the notion of formal political participation prevailed, while among low-SOC participants a more articulated vision emerged, encompassing social and community participation, and also conventional and non conventional types of participatory behaviors. ; peerReviewed ; publishedVersion

The relationship between sense of community (SOC) and citizen participation has been extensively studied in community psychology. Connecting Social Representations and SOC theory, this study explored the lay meanings of citizen participation and its association with SOC. A word association task and a measure of territorial SOC were administered to 390 participants, and data analyzed to explore the contents of the social representations of citizen participation conveyed by the interviewees and their salience. Results revealed that different levels of SOC were associated with variations in the social representation of citizen participation. Specifically, among high-SOC participants the notion of formal political participation prevailed, while among low-SOC participants a more articulated vision emerged, encompassing social and community participation, and also conventional and non conventional types of participatory behaviors.

Concerns about immigration are salient in the European Union and in Malta in particular. Previous research has demonstrated deep antipathy towards the Arab community in Malta, and social representations of Arabs are mired in a conflation of ethnic and religious categories with negative connotations. This paper presents evidence of the potency, within the public sphere, of negative arguments from cultural essentialism, concerning the integration of Arabs in Europe. The data was obtained abductively from a data corpus containing positive, mixed and negative arguments about Arabs and their integration. Results show evidence of the almost total exclusivity of cultural essentialism. All such arguments posited Arabic culture as an underlying essence that makes integration with Arabs difficult or impossible, yet different arguments were distinguishable by emphasis. Results pointed towards forms of culturally essentialist views that vary in their emphasis of different aspects of cultural essentialism. Reductionist, determinist, bounded and temporal aspects of cultural essentialism were all emphasised by respondents. The essentialist exceptions to negative arguments from cultural essentialism were extremely few in number and were posed tentatively by participants. Their paucity and manner of delivery give strength to the claim that it is strictly an Arabic cultural essence that is deemed to make integration impossible in the eyes of participants. Findings are discussed in light of the communicative functions that these dominant argumentative strategies fulfill.

Liquid crisis: narratives, concepts, imaginaries, politics -- The theoretical and methodological framework. The Semiotic Cultural Psychology and the notion of symbolic universe -- The map of symbolic universes -- European territories and symbolic universes -- Symbolic universes, economic and institutional scenarios, models of actions -- Cultural rupture and subjectivity: Shifts in the personal and professional identity of mental health professionals in times of crisis -- Teacher Evaluation Policies in Times of Crisis and Symbolic Universes: An Exploratory Analysis of the Greek Educational Context Symbolic universes and discursive enactment -- The representation of health and wellbeing in UK -- Symbolic universes and (post)crisis scenarios -- Perspective of development and new models of policies

The recent wave of immigration across European countries has precipitated an unprecedented political crisis in many Western countries. This is compounded by the fact that the large majority of these migrants originate from Arab countries. Research has demonstrated that Arabs are devalued relative to other socioethnic groups. The present study sought to investigate representations of Arabs and their integration. Twenty-one interviews conducted in Malta were used to analyse the logic and structure of argumentation supporting both favourable and unfavourable positions relative to Arabs. The findings demonstrate a variety of perspectives founded on six major themes, namely cultural, sociopolitical, psychological, religious, stigma and economic issues. All views were elaborated and warranted, and served to justify particular forms of social relations that make the integration of Arabs possible but highly difficult. In particular, findings demonstrate a lack of positive appraisals of Islam. These findings suggest that breaking the spiral of conflict between Europeans and the Arab communities they host requires affirmative action to redress the negative representational climate that Arab immigrants need to negotiate. Our study also introduces an innovative method for unpacking argumentation structures that mark representational fields. This serves to understand the ways by which social representations form and transform in everyday social interaction. This understanding is essential in designing smart policy that can cater to the logic of ordinary citizens.