Cultures of Cosmopolitan.

Szerszynski, B. and Urry, John (2002) Cultures of Cosmopolitan. The Sociological Review, 50 (4). pp. 461-481. ISSN 0038-0261

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with whether a ‘culture of cosmopolitanism’ is currently emerging out of massively wide-ranging ‘global’ processes. The authors develop certain theoretical components of such a culture, they consider ongoing research concerned with belongingness to different geographical entities including the ‘world as a whole’, and they present their own empirical research findings. From their media research they show that there is something that could be called a ‘banal globalism’, from focus group research they show that there is a wide awareness of the ‘global’ but that this is combined in complex ways with notions of the local and grounded, and from media interviews they demonstrate that there is a reflexive awareness of a culture of the cosmopolitan. On the basis of their data from the UK, they conclude that a ‘publicly screened’ cosmopolitan culture is emergent and likely to orchestrate much of social and political life in future decades.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
The Sociological Review
Additional Information:
RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Sociology
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312
Subjects:
?? sociology and political sciencehm sociology ??
ID Code:
3500
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Deposited On:
13 Mar 2008 15:08
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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