Comment enquête-t-on sur la socialisation cosmopolite ?

While there are countless research on cosmopolitanism, the sociological literature has only recently expressed interested in the ordinary forms of the mundane experience of global society. This article would fill this gap by proposing an approach based on the cosmopolitan socialization. The latter is understood rather as a long, sinuous or reversible processus - sometimes even contradictory and incoherent – of a possible acquisition of a spirit through contact and/or encounters - imagined, virtual or real - with otherness than the deployment of a disposition or the enactment of a property. The reflexive process of engaging with otherness consists of four major figures, distinguished here for an analytical purpose. We have named them: cosmo-aesthetic, cosmo-culturalist, cosmo-ethical and cosmo-political. Stemmed from the reading of texts on ordinary, banal, daily cosmopolitanism, these four figures would understand the mechanisms by which individuals produce or not universalist accounts, mobilize or not cosmopolitan repertoires, perform or not transnational imaginaries and cultures in the distinctive realms of aesthetics, culture, ethics and politics