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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. .

Culture. --- Ethnopsychology. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cultural policy. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Cross-Cultural Psychology. --- Cultural Studies. --- Cultural Policy and Politics. --- Cultural Theory. --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Social aspects --- Government policy --- Meaning (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Semantics (Philosophy)

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Feminism --- Women in education --- Women's studies

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This book presents the main findings of an empirical exploration of media discourses on social representations of “otherness” in seven European countries. It focuses on the analysis of press discourses produced over a fifteen-year period (2000–2015) on three contemporary figures of otherness that challenge the identity of European societies, question the attitudes towards diversity, and pose significant challenges for policy-makers: immigration, Islam, and LGBT. The book provides a comprehensive and articulate map of how national media addresses such themes from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, revealing patterns of continuity and discontinuity across time and space. Lastly, it discusses these patterns in the light of their cultural meanings and their influence on social and political collective behaviours.

Social psychology --- Sociology --- Migration. Refugees --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Mass communications --- psychologie --- sociologie --- communicatie --- migratie (mensen)

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Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Psychology --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of culture --- Social policy --- Economic order --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- psychologie --- cultuur --- sociale wetenschappen --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- welzijnsbeleid --- sociaal beleid --- economische ontwikkelingen --- interculturele communicatie --- ontwikkelingspolitiek

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This book advances the understanding and modelling of sensemaking and cultural processes as being crucial to the scientific study of contemporary complex societies. It outlines a dynamic, processual conception of culture and a general view of the role of cultural dynamics in policy-making, drawing three significant methodological implications: pluralism, performativity, and semiotic capital. It focuses on the theoretical and methodological aspects of the analysis of culture and its dynamics that could be applied to the developing of policymaking and, in general, to the understanding of social phenomena. It draws from the experience and data of a large-scale project, RECRIRE, funded by the H2020 program that mapped the symbolic universes across Europe after the economic crisis. It further develops the relationship between culture and policy-making discussed in two previous volumes in this series, and constitutes the ideal third and final element of this trilogy. The book is a useful tool for academics involved in studying cultural dynamics and for policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers attentive to the cultural dimensions of the design, implementation and reception of public policies.

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Psychology --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology of culture --- Social policy --- Economic order --- Economic policy and planning (general) --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Development aid. Development cooperation --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ontwikkelingsbeleid --- psychologie --- cultuur --- sociale wetenschappen --- ontwikkelingssamenwerking --- welzijnsbeleid --- sociaal beleid --- economische ontwikkelingen --- interculturele communicatie --- ontwikkelingspolitiek