Transcultural society in sociology

Abstract The impact of transnational migration and globalization on human society, along with emerging multiple identities, calls for reconceptualization of the meaning of cultural competence and a shift toward transcultural competence—a mode of being and learning in which humans communicate and interact among cultures in a very diverse and dynamic environment. Embracing transculturalism perspective calls for integration of new concepts and approaches in communication and education that promote active participation, adaptation, and interaction. To this end, this essay examines the holistic model for developing transcultural competence that involves inquiry, framing, and positionality that challenge our taken-for-granted frames of references and expand our worldviews. The study also explores how educators and learners develop cognitive, emotional, and social qualities, engaging in dialog and critical reflection that informs our actions as the catalyst for positive social change and transformation. Implementing this holistic perspective toward transcultural education can create an inclusive environment for communicating, interacting, and learning without opposing cultural, national, and ethnic binaries. 1 Introduction In the age of globalization and super-diversity, our daily lives depend more and more on multiple interconnections across borders. Almost every country is involved in migration, which refers to multiple, circular, transnational movements across geographical spa...

The transcultural project emerged in the society with the highest level of social determinism. The Marxist idea that social existence determines social consciousness and in the final analysis individual consciousness, and Lenin’s idea that one cannot live in a society and be free from the society, were the governing assumptions of Soviet ideology. Since Soviet society was so persistently and forcefully homogenized it was impossible for any social group to challenge the foundations of the society or to oppose itself to the society as a whole. As a result, the project of transculture from its conception aimed to activate the transsocial potentials inherent in human individuals rather than those oppositional or revolutionary elements pertaining to specific social groups. Keywords • Middle Class • Artistic Market • Cultural Category • Specific Social Group • Passive Leisure These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. • Alfred Schutz, Collected Papers, II, Studies in Social Theory, ed. and intro. by Arvid Brodersen (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1964): 104. • Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993): 4, 36. • “Today everyday, political, social, historical, economic, etc., reality has already incorporated the hyperrealist dimension of simulation… Reality has passed completely into the game of realit...

transcultural You could describe a mother's love for her child as transcultural, since it exists in all human cultures. Something that's true across all cultures of people, no matter how different, can be described with the adjective transcultural. The key to the word's meaning is found in the prefix trans, or "across" in Latin. Sociologists, anthropologists, and historians are particularly interested in things that are transcultural, as they study the way humans interact in various societies, cultures, and time periods.

Recent Examples on the Web Overall, Crazy Like Us is a fascinating book about transcultural psychiatry and medical anthropology. — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2010 Dubin also hopes the transcultural nature of Benjamin's work attracts new visitors to the Jewish Museum including members of the South Asian and other religious communities. — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 23 June 2022 These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'transcultural.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.

This article focuses of the relation of cultural sociology to Francophone sociologists, showing that this analytical orientation remains little known among them. Such gap can be bridged, however, if one brings attention to the developments of Jeffrey Alexander’s type of cultural sociology on the one side, and Louis Quéré’s and Daniel Cefaï’s works on the other, along the lines of redefining the Habermasian concept of the public sphere, either by Alexander’s civil sphere concept, or Cefaï’s and Quéré’s interests for the performative dimension of actors engaged in public arenas. Such an encounter centers on the interpretation of the roles of social movements and media in shaping sociological analysis, and emphasizes the differences that exist between pragmatism and hermeneutics as interpretive tools. While the opposition between pragmatism’particularism and hermeneutic’s universalism would seem to be irreducible, it is rather their dialectical relation which is at stake, opening up the way for a transcultural vision of things. My own interpretation locates this transcultural vision as a challenge for the bridging of those two types of approach, by providing an example and arguments in this direction. The journal Sociologie et sociétés, which published the first version of Alexander’s and Smith’s article in French, also exceptionally published an English version of this special issue that was released at the occasion of the World Congress of the International Sociological Ass...

Sep 5, 2013 at 8:19am PDT Society is “the complex patterns of #social #relationships.”* Sociology textbooks sometimes define society as “people who interact in a defined space and share culture.” This definition doesn’t quite capture the reality of our globalised lives where cultures flow across borders. Postcolonial theories study the history of groups who were forced to leave their homelands due to slavery, conflict or other disasters. Around 20 nations dispute their territories and some groups such as the Kurdish and Romani are dispersed across various countries. Societies therefore have a connection to geography but they are not necessarily defined by place. Societies are made up of institutions that socialise us, providing the norms, values, laws, and rules that organise our #behaviour and cooperation. Citations: 1) The Concise Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ritzer & Ryan (eds). 2) Sociology: A Global Introduction. Macionis & Plummer.