| Place of Publication | New York, USA : |
| Publisher's Name | Routledge, |
| Date of Publication | 2002 |
| Extent | x, 310p. |
| Other Details | appendix, end notes, figures, indexed, references, tables |
| Item Descriptor | Considering the social and cultural contexts of individual thought. A collection of 14 essays that open a dialogue between cognitive science and cultural sociology, encouraging a new network of scientific collaboration and stimulating new lines of social scientific research |
| Formatted Content Note | Sections include - Establishing a sociology of culture and cognition/ Karen A Cerulo; Sensation and attention - an introduction; The elephant in the room - notes on the social organisation of denial/ Eviatar Zerubavel; Signals and interpretive work - the role of culture in a theory of practical action/ Diane Vaughan; Discrimination and classification - an introduction; Commensuration and cognition/ Wendy Nelson Espeland; Preterm babies in the "Mother machine" - metaphoric reasoning and bureaucratic rituals that finish the "Unfinished infant"/ Nicole Isaacson; Cognition in social constructions - market rivalry profile versus cost schedule/ Harrison C White; Representation and integration - an introduction; Moral inquiry in cultural sociology/ Robert Wuthnow; Individualism.. pro tem - reconsidering US social relations/ Karen A Cerulo; Tracking discourse/ David L Altheide; How storytelling can be empowering/ William A Gamson; Storage and retrieval - an introduction; Honor, dignity and collective memory - judging the past in Korea and the United States/ Barry Schwartz and MiKyoung Kim; Thinking about evil - Adolf Hitler and the dilemma of the social construction of reputation/ Gary Alan Fine; building bridges - an introduction; Fixing a Foucault sandwich - cognitive universals and cultural particulars in the concept of mental disorders/ Jerome C Wakefield; Culture, harmful dysfunctions and the sociology of mental illness/ Allan V Horwitz; Why cognitive (and cultural) sociology needs cognitive psychology/ Paul DiMaggio
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| Level Content-Audience | Undergraduate |
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| Subject Entry | Cognition and culture - Congresses
Cognition
Culture |
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