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• TITLE: The Psychosocial Dimension of Power: An Emotional Analysis of the Discourse on Globalization of the Davos Elite

  AUTHORS: Mario D’Andreta

  KEYWORDS: Global Elite, Globalization, Discourse Analysis, Coexistence, Emotional Symbolization

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Social Sciences, Vol.10 No.9, August 24, 2022

  ABSTRACT: This work focused on the psychosocial dynamics underlying the political and cultural action of the global elite, through a pilot study of the image of globalization of the World Economic Forum (WEF) addressed to identify possible strategies for developing those dynamics in a more democratic and socio-economically fair way in order to strengthen the global civil coexistence. The study was conducted on a corpus of texts composed of interviews, articles and speeches of the member of World Economic Forum’s board of trustees focused on the issue of globalization, according to the methodology of Emotional Text Analysis. The results show the centrality of specific patterns of relational and organizational models, based on the tendency to possess the other, the need for power as dominant social motivation and a self-referential, mythical conception of supranational financial institutions which let them to operate without real commission, nor evaluation of efficacy, from their beneficiaries. On the basis of this scenario, two ways of development were identified: the valorization of the other as a resource for the reciprocal development and the passage from a compliance based logic of action to a commonly agreed goals and products based one.