Overview
- Presents an extensive repertoire of empirical approaches to the study of meaning-making and cultural dynamics
- Discusses different contexts of cultural analysis, therefore appealing to a wide readership
- Grounded in empirical research conducted by a multidisciplinary and international team
Part of the book series: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action (CPMSUSA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Framework
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Strategies of Analysis
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Domain Meanings
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About this book
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, socialstatistics, 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri has a BA in Psychology of Communication from the University of Siena, an MSc in Social Research Methods (Statistics) from the Methodology Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a PhD in Social Psychology from the LSE. He is Associate Professor of Research Methodology and Cognitive Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. He was Senior Lecturer at University of Leicester and has been a senior scientific fellow at the European Commission JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in the unit of Social Innovation and ICT. Before joining the IPTS, he was a research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris. He has published in scientific journals such as Nature, PLOS One, Computers in Human Behavior, Public Understanding of Science, Big Data & Society and others. His latest book is Digital Social Research (2019, Polity). He has carried out large European studies (H2020, EC framework contracts on behavioural research, etc.) using different methodologies such as surveys, population-based survey experiments online, lab experiments, focus groups, and more.
Terri Mannarini is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, and editor-in-chief of the international journal Community Psychology in Global Perspective. Her research interests cover political, social, and community psychology, and focus specifically on community participation and development processes, collective action,acculturation processes, and gender issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Methods and Instruments in the Study of Meaning-Making
Editors: Sergio Salvatore, Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri, Terri Mannarini
Series Title: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21995-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21994-8Published: 25 February 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21997-9Published: 26 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21995-5Published: 24 February 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-7306
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 202
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cultural Studies, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural Theory