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Title Societies under threat : a pluri-disciplinary approach / Denise Jodelet, Jorge Vala, Ewa Drozda-Senkowska, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Series Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research ; v. 3
Frontiers in sociology and social research ; v. 3.
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Introduction-Threats: An Indispensable Debate -- Opening an Interdisciplinary Research Field -- Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach to Threats? -- Thinking, Building and Confronting Threats: Organization of the Book and Summaries of the Chapters -- References -- Part I Thinking Threats: Opening Views on Phenomena and Social Processes -- 2 Uses and Misuses of Threats in the Public Sphere -- Concerning the Notion of Threat -- Threat Approach Framework -- Sources and Targets of Threats
The Evil Carried by Threat -- The Fear Engendered by the Threat -- The Answers to Threat -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Unbounded Environment, Risk Society, and Potentialization of Threats: A Challenge for Social Sciences -- Risk and Threat -- Risk and Environment -- Axiology of the Processes Whereby Threat Builds up -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Transcendental Damage Versus Global Risks -- Prerequisites of the Risk Society -- Transcendental Damage Versus Global Risks -- References -- 5 Modalities of Perceiving Threats: The Time Factor -- Reactions to Threat and the Time Factor
Impact of Threat Evaluation -- Collective Representations of Threats -- The Post-truth Age and Communication Systems -- References -- 6 In the Age of Societal Uncertainty, the Era of Threat -- On the Nature of Threat and the Threat Process -- Societal Uncertainty and the Era of Threat -- The Significance of Identity Processes and Social Representations in the Era of Threat -- Identity of the Individual in an Age of Societal Uncertainty -- In Conclusion -- References -- Part II Building Threats: Cultures, Groups, and Identities
7 From the "Classic" Terrorism of the 1970s to Contemporary "Global" Terrorism -- 'Classical' Terrorism -- Brief Historical Review -- Conceptualization -- Global Terrorism -- The Origin of Jihadism -- Four Types of Jihadism -- A New Conceptualisation -- References -- 8 Climate Change in Sociocultural Contexts: One Risk, Multiple Threats -- The Role of Pre-existing Worldviews When Representing Climate Change in France and Germany -- The Emotional Dimension of the Climate Change Threat in France and Germany -- The Dynamics of Threat: How One Threat Transforms into Other Threats -- Conclusion
Summary This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and social processes associated with threat. It shows how threat constitutes an analytical category that simultaneously involves social, psychological, religious, historical and political factors, and calls for a sufficiently broad conceptual definition to integrate pluri-disciplinary contributions. The second part focuses on the building of threats, mainly the environmental threats that have reached a tragic dimension today and are a core aspect of world concerns, the contemporary global terrorism, the migrations and the challenges these bring to contemporary societies, as well as the threats associated with the emergence of nationalism and the diverse aspects of excluding the Other. The final part examines the coping strategies, including oblivion, denial and defiance associated with different sources of threats, for instance those arising from epidemic and collective diseases, financial technology, natural disasters and collective traumas
Bibliography References-9 A Lasting Symbolic National Threat: The Dispute Over the Name Macedonia-Threatened by a Name-A Nationalist Threat?-National Attitudes and Belief Systems-A Lasting Threat-Principles of the Process of Anchoring-Beyond the Familiar-Familiarisation with the Unfamiliar-References-10 Gypsies: What Threat? Threat and Purity in Majority and Minority Relationships-The Stigmatic Thought and the Construction of the Minority Threat-Threat and Prejudice-Gypsies: What Threat?-The Threat of the Gypsy by Constructing the Gypsy as a Nomad
Notes Stigmatic Thought When Domestication Fails
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Subject Social representations.
Social issues & processes.
Political science & theory.
Anthropology.
The self, ego, identity, personality.
Social Science -- Sociology -- General.
Political Science -- General.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- General.
Psychology -- Personality.
Social representations
Amenaçes.
Psicologia social.
Civilització.
Guerra i civilització.
Problemes socials.
Canvi climàtic.
Llibres electrònics.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Llibres electrònics.
Form Electronic book
Author Jodelet, Denise
Vala, Jorge
Drozda-Senkowska, Ewa
ISBN 9783030393151
3030393151