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9780415929448

Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition

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    9780415929448

  • ISBN10:

    041592944X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-11-07
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of fourteen original essays from some of the top sociologists in the country, including Eviatar Zerubavel, Diane Vaughan, Paul Dimaggio and Gary Alan Fine, among others, opens a dialogue between cognitive science and cultural sociology, encouraging a new network of scientific collaboration and stimulating new lines of social scientific research. Rather than considering thought as just an individual act,Culture in Mindconsiders it in a social and cultural context. Provocatively, this suggests that our thoughts do not function in a vacuum: our minds are not alone. Covering such diverse topics as the nature of evil, the process of storytelling, defining mental illness, and the conceptualizing of the premature baby, these essays offer fresh insights into the functioning of the mind. Leaving the MRI behind,Culture in Mindwilluncover the mysteries of how we think.

Author Biography

Karen A. Cerulo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Establishing a Sociology of Culture and Cognition
1(20)
Karen A. Cerulo
Section I: Sensation and Attention
Sensation and Attention: An Introduction
15(6)
The Elephant in the Room: Notes on the Social Organization of Denial
21(7)
Eviatar Zerubavel
Signals and Interpretive Work: The Role of Culture in a Theory of Practical Action
28(35)
Diane Vaughan
Section II: Discrimination and Classification
Discrimination and Classification: An Introduction
57(6)
Commensuration and Cognition
63(26)
Wendy Nelson Espeland
Preterm Babies in the ``Mother Machine'': Metaphoric Reasoning and Bureaucratic Rituals that Finish the ``Unfinished Infant''
89(12)
Nicole Isaacson
Cognition in Social Constructions: Market Rivalry Profile versus Cost Schedule
101(22)
Harrison C. White
Section III: Representation and Integration
Representation and Integration: An Introduction
113(10)
Moral Inquiry in Cultural Sociology
123(12)
Robert Wuthnow
Individualism...Pro Term: Reconsidering U.S. Social Relations
135(37)
Karen A. Cerulo
Tracking Discourse
172(15)
David L. Altheide
How Storytelling Can Be Empowering
187(22)
William A. Gamson
Section IV: Storage and Retrieval
Storage and Retrieval: An Introduction
201(8)
Honor, Dignity, and Collective Memory: Judging the Past in Korea and the United States
209(18)
Barry Schwartz
MiKyoung Kim
Thinking About Evil: Adolf Hitler and the Dilemma of the Social Construction of Reputation
227(18)
Gary Alan Fine
Section V: Building Bridges
Building Bridges: An Introduction
241(4)
Fixing a Foucault Sandwich: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars in the Concept of Mental Disorders
245(22)
Jerome C. Wakefield
Culture, Harmful Disfunctions and the Sociology of Mental Illness
267(7)
Allan V. Horwitz
Why Cognitive (and Cultural) Sociology Needs Cognitive Psychology
274(9)
Paul DiMaggio
Appendix: Mapping the Field 283(11)
Karen A. Cerulo
Contributors 294(3)
Index 297

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