Culture and policy-making: pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital / Marco Cremaschi, Carlotta Fioretti, Terri Mannarini, Sergio Salvatore

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Part I Culture, Policy, and Policy-Making.. 1 The Meaning of Culture.. 1.1 The Cultural Turn in Social Sciences.. 1.2 What is Culture?.. 1.2.1 Culture as Structure.. 1.2.2 Culture as a Pattern of Aggregated Individual.. Preferences.. 1.2.3 Culture as Interpretative Activity.. 1.3 The Semantic Space of Culture.. 1.4 Conclusion.. References.. 2 Policies and Culture: Mind the Gap.. 2.1 Somehow, Somewhere.. 2.2 Policy Design.. 2.3 Looking Forward: From Culture to Policy.. 2.4 How People Bond.. 2.5 How People Act Together.. 2.6 How People Embody the Common Good.. 2.7 Conclusion.. References.. Part II Framework.. 3 Culture as Sensemaking.. 3.1 The Semiotic Cultural Psychology Theory.. 3.2 The Field Dynamic Nature of Sensemaking.. 3.3 The Recursive Linkage Between Human Interpretative Activity, Cultural Milieu and Social Settings.. 3.3.1 Tenet 1. The Embeddedness of Mind in the Cultural Milieu.. 3.3.2 Tenet 2. The Culture as a Domain of Differences.. 3.3.3 Tenet 3. The Transitive Hierarchical Organisation of the Cultural Milieu.. 3.3.4 Tenet 4. The Affective Grounds of the Cultural Milieu (the Salience of Symbolic Universes).. 3.3.5 Tenet 5. The Cultural Grounds of Subjectivity.. 3.3.6 Tenet 6. The Semiotic Regulation of Uncertainty.. 3.3.7 Tenet 7. The Reciprocal Inherency Between Social Practices and Sensemaking.. 3.3.8 Tenet 8. The Recursive Linkage Between the Taken-For-Grantedness of the Cultural Milieu and Stability of the Social Group.. 3.4 Implications and Further Remarks.. 3.5 Conclusion.. References.. 4 The Cultural Dynamic of The Crisis.. 4.1 The Affectivisation of the Public Sphere.. 4.1.1 The Exteriorisation of the Private Sphere.. 4.1.2 The Enemisation of Otherness.. 4.1.3 The Irradiation of the Identity Bond.. 4.1.4 The Presentification of Social Life.. 4.1.5 The Emotification of Public Language.. 4.1.6 The Dereferentialisation of the Signifier.. 4.2 The Socio-cognitive Impact of Uncertainty.. 4.2.1 The Socio-institutional Sources of Uncertainty.. 4.2.2 The Interplay Between Affects and Cognition.. 4.3 The Semiotic Regulation of Uncertainty.. 4.4 Conclusion.. References.. 5 A Cultural View of Policy-Making. Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital.. 5.1 The Inherent Pluralism of the Cultural Milieu.. 5.2 The Performativity of Meaning-Making.. 5.3 The Distribution of Semiotic Capital.. 5.4 The Disputed Monument: An Illustrative Case.. 5.4.1 Dealing with a Controversial Monument.. 5.4.2 An Open Dialogic Policy.. 5.4.3 Place and Memory.. 5.5 Pluralism, Performativity and Semiotic Capital in Action.. 5.5.1 Pluralism: The Multivocality of Urban Spaces.. 5.5.2 Performativity.. 5.5.3 The Recognition of Otherness. Semiotic Capital in Action.. 5.6 Conclusion.. References.. Part III Culture-Sensitive Policy-Making.. 6 The Pluralism of the Cultural Milieu.. 6.1 Approaches and Responses to Difference and Diversity.. 6.2 The Phenomenology of Human Pluralism.. 6.2.1 Cultural Pluralism Within Groups.. 6.2.2 Cultural Pluralism Between Groups.. 6.2.3 Pluralism and Commonality Across Groups.. 6.3 How Pluralism is Generally Addressed: Some Instances from Psychology and Social Sciences.. 6.4 Pluralism in Policy Design and Implementation.. 6.4.1 Policy Design.. 6.4.2 Policy Implementation.. 6.5 Lessons Learned and Directions.. 6.6 Conclusions.. References.. 7 Performativity.. 7.1 Notes on Performativity.. 7.2 Strengths and Weaknesses of Practices.. 7.3 Acting Before and Beyond the Expertise.. 7.4 Fighting Crime, Promoting Trust.. 7.4.1 The Dark Side of Social Regulation.. 7.4.2 A Programme to Build Trust.. 7.4.3 Performativity and Social Regulation.. 7.5 Social Change: Bricolage or Design.. 7.5.1 Urban Projects Versus Open Programming.. 7.5.2 Les Grands Voisins.. 7.5.3 Performativity and Change.. 7.6 Conclusion.. References.. 8 Semiotic Capital.. 8.1 Basic Concepts.. 8.2 Symbolic Universes and Semiotic Capital.. 8.3 Semiotic Capital Matters.. 8.3.1 The Distribution of Semiotic Capital Within European Societies.. 8.3.2 The Role of Semiotic Capital. Some Empirical Evidence.. 8.4 Semiotic Capital in Policy Design.. 8.5 The Promotion of Semiotic Capital.. 8.6 Conclusion.. References.. 9 The Cultural Framework in Action.. 9.1 The Case Study: Urban Exclusion in Paris.. 9.1.1 Culture and Urban Exclusion.. 9.1.2 Policy Background and Context.. 9.2 Meaning and Evolution of the Policy Over Time.. 9.2.1 First Phase.. 9.2.2 Second Phase.. 9.2.3 Third Phase.. 9.3 Recognising Pluralism in the Policy-Making Process.. 9.3.1 Criteria of Pluralism.. 9.3.2 The Acknowledgement of Paradoxical Effects.. 9.4 Using Culture in Policy-Making: Performativity and Distribution of Semiotic Capital.. 9.5 Conclusion.. References

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. eng