Plural and shared : : the sociology of a cosmopolitan world / / by Vincenzo Cicchelli ; translated by Sarah-Louise Raillard.

• VerfasserIn: Cicchelli, Vincenzo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; French
• Series: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 131.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages).

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 Forewod 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 Brazilian as Plural e comum. Sociologia de um mundo cosmopolita by Edições Sesc, Sao Paulo, 2018.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Foreword -- Preface to the English Edition: Capturing Alterity -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Introduction: the Cosmopolitan Imagination -- The Distinctive Characteristics of the Cosmopolitan World -- Scales of Interdependence -- The Matrices of Singularity -- The Place of Plurality -- Conclusion to Part 1 -- Cosmopolitan Socialization -- Thinking Cosmopolitan Socialization -- What is a Cosmopolitan? -- The Elementary Forms of the Cosmopolitan Spirit -- Conclusion to Part 2 -- Conclusion.