Globalization: a challenge for social coexistence

This article proposes a theoretical and methodological approach to the study of the issue of globalization, focused on its impact on social coexistence, from a psychosociological perspective aimed at analysing the processes influencing the way of living together in the contemporary world. This perspective of analysis is grounded in the field of the multidisciplinary approach of the psychology of coexistence, based on the theory of collusion formulated by Carli and Paniccia. It allows to identify several hypotheses to investigate in order to better understand the phenomenon of globalization and to define better strategies to deal with it, starting from conceiving globalization as a social construction produced by the interactions amongs three actors: the promoters and supporters of the present form of globalization, those who oppose themselves against them and those who undergo the effects of globalization in their everyday life, without being able to take up a definite position for or against it. This kind of approach to the study of globalization could be operatively translated through a study of discourses of “globalists”, “anti-globalists” and of “who doesn't take part” through specific methodologies of discourse analysis psychologically grounded, such as the Text Emotional Analysis (TEA), developed by Carli and Paniccia.