Overview
- Considers narration as influencing individual and collective decisions and imagination of the future
- Includes interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology with other social and behavioural sciences
- Explores the relationship between culture, society and individuals through examining social reality
Part of the book series: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action (CPMSUSA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Narratives, Sociology, and Research Perspectives
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Narratives and Social Change
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Social Reality, Narratives, and Future Research Perspectives
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About this book
This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change. The author demonstrates this through an analysis of concepts like future, uncertainty and risk, both in terms of individual impact and as collective forms of social life. The book reconstructs the relationships between future, uncertainty and risk through everyday how narratives exert power over individual and social life by influencing individual or collective decisions and choices. Narratives also change future prospects, thus producing social change. Some of the examples the author draws out for discussion are - in specific - the narration of the migration flows in the Mediterranean Sea, and the narration of the pandemic emergency from COVID-19. The result of different narratives has been the emergence of new ideologies and of a complex series of dynamics in which the local ends up becoming global and vice versa.
Highly topical and interdisciplinary in its approach, this book is of interest to researchers and students of the sociology of culture and communication, media and communication studies, social and cultural psychology and cultural anthropology.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Emiliana Mangone is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Department of Political and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy. She is a Director of the Narratives and Social Changes-International Research Group (2020-2026) and she was a Director of the International Centre for Studies and Research on “Mediterranean Knowledge” (2015-2020). Her main investigative interests are in the field of cultural and institutional systems, with particular attention to the social representations, relational processes, and knowledge as key elements to the human. She recently published: Beyond the Dichotomy Between Altruism and Egoism. Society, Relationship, and Responsibility (Information Age Publishing, 2020); Social and Cultural Dynamics. Revisiting the Work of Pitirim A. Sorokin (Springer, 2018); Gender and Sexuality in the Migration Trajectories. Studies Between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean Shores (Information Age Publishing, 2018, with G. Masullo & M. Gallego, eds).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Narratives and Social Change
Book Subtitle: Social Reality in Contemporary Society
Authors: Emiliana Mangone
Series Title: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94565-7
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 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94564-0Published: 02 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94567-1Published: 04 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94565-7Published: 01 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2523-7306
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 184
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Anthropology, Cross Cultural Psychology, Social Sciences, general, Social Theory