Knowledge and acknowledgement: the concept of alterity as a tool for social interaction
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Ballarín, Josep Manel
Marín, Francesc Xavier
Navarro, Angel-Jesús
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Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Turisme i Direcció Hotelera Sant Ignasi
Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport Blanquerna
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2012Abstract
Human beings inhabit a symbolic reality that articulates meaning. This is culture understood as a web of meanings that actually builds our identity by providing guidance in the complexity of our environment. It is the complex interplay between identity and alterity, between interiority and exteriority, between familiarity and strangeness. Worldviews set up borders that delimit one’s own world and others’ ground by establishing stereotypes and prejudices. This article presents the results of a research project on prejudices towards the other in students majoring in Education and Psychology with the aim of offering some reflections on what is at stake in social exclusion policies.
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20 p.
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Universitat Ramon Llull. Càtedra Ethos
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Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics, Vol. 3, Núm. 3, p. 135-154
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