INTERCULTURAL SKILLS AND SOCIALIZATION OF THE SUBJECT
INTERCULTURAL SKILLS AND SOCIALIZATION OF THE SUBJECT

Summary/Abstract: The starting point is the question asked by Touraine, “Can we live together?”, that is, will we be able to combine the subject’s personal freedom, the acknowledgement of diversities and the institutional guarantees protecting both freedom and diversity? In order to find an answer concerning the possibility of such life together, the article will mainly examine the arguments put forward by Edgar Morin and Alain Touraine, but without disregarding other scholars’ opinions. Globalization and communication may be seen as two labels. The first refers to the current and future state of the world; the second is applied to means and tools of sociability and sociableness. These steps make it possible to check the inextricable and reciprocally functional co-presence of permanence and change, as well as continuity and discontinuity. These four elements are all the more important if we think that global displacements of people are both permanent and transitory, and therefore extremely varied in nature. In order to give an answer to the question asked at the beginning, after discussing the suggestions aimed at constructing an “école du sujet”, it will be possible to say what possibilities exist to achieve a new society, reconciled by the possible dialogue between cultures that are in reciprocal contact; and such contact is not only short-lived, it must necessarily imply peaceful coexistence on the same territory.

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