Roger Sages
Migration, acculturation and identity formation
Roger Sages, Assistant Professor
The project is run in cooperation between Beijing (ChinaYouth University for Political Sciences), Kunming (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Yunnan University, YHDRA, Yunnan Health and Development Research Center, Yunnan Federation for Social Sciences Reseach), Lyon (Université de Lyon2-Lumières), Lund (Research Policy Institute).
Roger Sages, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology. Carl Magnus Pålsson, Research Policy Institute.
a) Globalisation and its eventual effects on identity (ies) of young people, the problems of acculturation, be it to another country, to another cultural landscape in the same country (village to city) or to a foreign cultural organisation in one’s own country (yoga center in western countries, working in a foreign enterprise).
b) Cultural aspects of contacts between university staff/students. Two points are here of very special interest:
1. A close study of the forms and kinds of exchanges occurring during cultural interactions between staff members of European and Chinese universities (research in the communication process, as part of a research on the politics of sciences), understanding/misunderstanding due to culturally different preconceptions and expectations;
2. A close study of the process of acculturation occurring when Chinese students are studying abroad (Sweden, France). Differences in behaviour, styles of learning, styles of behaving toward their classmates and teachers, working capacity.
Publications
Book chapters (3)
- Sages, R. (2003). Truth as unveiling. In Lindén, J. & Szybek, P. (Eds.) Validation of knowledge claims in human science. Lyon Limonest: l’Interdisciplinaire.
- Sages, R., Lundsten, J., Andersson, M. & Histrup, S. (2002). Meaning constitution analysis—A phenomenological approach to cross-cultural questions. In Boski, P., van de Vijver, F. & Chodynicka, A. (Eds.) New directions in cross-cultural psychology. Selected papers from the Fifteenth International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. Wydawnictwo Insytutu Psychologii PAN.
- Sages, R. (2001). Phenomenology in the service of cross-cultural psychology—A method of text analysis and its application to a comparative study of a Swedish and a Rumanian printing press. In Lahlou, M., Vinsonneau, G. & Jahoda, G. (Eds.) La Psychologie au regard des contacts de Cultures. L’Interdisciplinaire.
Conference papers (9)
- Sages, R. (2005). Meaning Constitution Analysis: A Phenomenological Approach. European Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
- Sages, R. (2003). La Discrimination Implicite: une perspective suédoise. Contacts de cultures, cultures de contacts, IX Congrès International de l’ARIC, 29 June – 4 July, 2003. ARIC, Amiens.
- Sages, R. (2003). The Meaning of Europe, a phenomenological study. In Cultures in Interaction, International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Sixth European Regional Congress.
- Lahlou, M., Lundsten, J. & Sages, R. (2002). The importance for strategic management decision making of understanding the impact of culture on implicit professional values. In Sagie, A. & Stasiak, M. (Eds.) VIIIth Bi-annual Conference of the ISSWOV, International Society for the Study of Work and Organisational Values, 24 – 27 June, 2002, Warszawa, Poland (pp. 255-262). Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi,.
- Lundsten, J. & Sages, R. (2002). Values about management in client related and not client related jobs: a comparison between a ward in the geriatric care and in industrial company. Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi.
- Sages, R. (2002). Of values for management decision making. In Sagie, A. & Stasiak, M. (Eds.) VIIIth Bi-annual Conference of the ISSWOV, International Society for the Study of Work and Organisational Values, 24 – 27 June, 2002, Warszawa, Poland (pp. 397-403). Wyzsza Szkola Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi.
- Sages, R. & Lahlou, M. (2002). Implicit discrimination—the stumbling block of a future world society. New methods and approaches for its study. Can phenomenology be the unified theory for cross-/cultural psychology?.
- Sages, R. (2001). Phenomenological method of meaning constitution analysis in globalization—opportunities and threats.
- Sages, R. & Lundsten, J. (2001). La méthode phénoménologique d´analyse du sens: etude comparative d´une troupe de theatre en Suède et en tchéque, in Rechershes et pratiques interculturelles: nouveaux espaces, nouvelles complexities?. ARIC, Association pour la recherche interculturelle, VIII Congrès international, Genève, 24 – 29 September, 2001.
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