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Государство vs миграционное сообщество: опыт Швеции
In March 2011 scholars met in Prague at the conference Interculturalism, Meaning and Identity. This event revitalised this important theme related to Diversity and Recognition. The terms 'interculturalism' and 'integration' are experiencing a renaissance. As the extent of human movement between nations increases attempts are made to balance cultural difference and social cohesion. In some contexts immigration and settlement policies are becoming more draconian in response. Because of this, interculturalism can take on many meanings. However, pivotal to the way interculturalism is understood is identification. As the relationship between nation, ethnicity and language becomes more complex so too do the ways in which people represent them selves. The cultural resources drawn on and the processes used to form identities are examined in this truly international collection. So too are the implications of these developments for how we theorise culture, meaning and identity.
Das der Migrationproblematik gewidmete Buch besteht aus fünf Teilen. Der erste Abschnitt beschäftigt sich mit den Problemen der Interkulturalität in Soziologie, Pädagogik und Recht. Der zweite Abschnitt beschreibt verschiedene Aspekte sprachlicher Manifestationen des interkulturellen Bewusstseins. Thematisch ist es eine breite Forschungspalette, von der Integrität der "Ich-Position" des Autors in den Migrationsbedingungen bis zu Beschreibungen der Stereotypen, die mit den Begriffen "Migranten" und "Migration" assoziiert sind. Das Thema zu vereinen, um Die Artikel im dritten Abschnitt vereinigt das Thema multikultureller Dialoge in der Musik: verschiedene Ansätze zur musikalischen und ästhetischen Selbst-Identifikation. Der vierte Abschnitt ist der "Roten Gräfin" Sophia Panina gewidmet. Und der letzte Abschnitt betrachtet aktuelle Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Migration, Sprache und sprachpolitischer Planung.
A joint research project carried out by an interdisciplinary group of Russian and Swedish linguists, sociologists and educators-psychologists (the Swedish Institute grant), besides solving pragmatic tasks of finding out relative quantitative-qualitative specificity of national cognitive representations of values, first of all, had methodological goals. They were to check the efficiency of the linguistic methods developed in this study (and, thus, to prove the theoretical ideas that served the basis for it) of getting factual data that allow reconstructing and comparing of the corresponding areas of cognitive representations.
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