Vincenzo Cicchelli Living In A Global Society, Handling Otherness: An appraisal of Cosmopolitan Socialization Il mondo è come l’impressione che lascia il racconto di una storia1 (Yogavāsistha, 2, 3, 11, in Roberto Calasso, Ka, 2002) 1. Introduction T he question addressed in this paper is both general and speciic. It is general because it inevitably covers a number of commonalities that are shared by authors who are actively engaged in promoting cosmopolitanism. It is speciic because I am concerned with the operationalization of the cosmopolitan perspective that has become widely popular in sociological literature and has known an upsurge of interest over the last two decades. It is worthwhile to consider in which way and to what extent cosmopolitanism is a heuristic perspective for generating speciic empirical studies. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, I will show there is some credence to the view that the cosmopolitan sociology helps us to understand how individuals relate to globality and its outcomes [Cotesta, Cicchelli, Nocenzi 2013]. his reinement is accomplished by focusing on the processes and the outcomes of the cosmopolitan socialization. 1. he world is like the impression left by the telling of a story.