Description
In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this interest cuts across various topical subfields, including culture, social psychology, religion, race, and identity. Scholars within the new subfield of cognitive sociology, also referred to as the sociology of culture and cognition, are contributing to a rapidly developing body of work on how mental and social phenomena are interrelated and often interdependent.In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology, Wayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Igantow have gathered some of the most influential scholars working in cognitive sociology to present an accessible introduction to key research areas in a diverse field. While classical sociological and newer interdisciplinary approaches have been covered separately by scholars in the past, this volume alternatively presents a broad range of cognitive sociological perspectives. The contributors discuss a range of approaches for theorizing and analyzing the "social mind," including macro-cultural approaches, interactionist approaches, and research that draws on Pierre Bourdieu's major concepts. Each chapter further investigates a variety of cognitive processes within these three approaches, such as attention and inattention, perception, automatic and deliberate cognition, cognition and social action, stereotypes, categorization, classification, judgment, symbolic boundaries, meaning-making, metaphor, embodied cognition, morality and religion, identity construction, time sequencing, and memory.A comprehensive look at cognitive sociology's main contributions and the central debates within the field, the Handbook will serve as a primary resource for social researchers, faculty, and students interested in how cognitive sociology can contribute to research within their substantive areas of focus.
Table of Contents
1. Cognitive Sociology and the Cultural Mind: Debates, Directions, and ChallengesWayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Ignatow Part I: Theoretical Foundations2. Cognitive Sociology: Between the Personal and the Universal MindEviatar Zerubavel 3. Critical Theory and Cognitive SociologyPiet Strydom 4. Pierre Bourdieu as Cognitive SociologistOmar Lizardo 5. Embodied Cognition: Sociology's Role in Bridging Mind, Brain, and BodyKaren A. Cerulo 6. The Old One-Two: Preserving Analytic Dualism in Cognitive SociologyStephen Vaisey and Margaret Frye 7. Can Carnal Sociology Bring Together Body and Soul, or, Who's Afraid of Christian Wolff?John Levi Martin 8. Cognitive Sociology and French Psychological SociologyGabe Ignatow 9. Cognitive Science and Social TheoryDavid Eck and Stephen Turner 10. Dual Process Models in SociologyVanina Leschziner 11. Bridging the Vocabularies of Dual-Process Models of Culture and CognitionJacob Strandell 12. Metaphorical Creativity-The Role of ContextZoltán Kövecses 13. Priming and Framing: Dimensions of Communication and CognitionJohn Sonnett Part II: Perspectives from Other Fields14. Cognitive LinguisticsPaul Chilton 15. Class, Cognition, and Cultural Change in Social ClassHenri C. Santos, Igor Grossmann, and Michael E. W. Varnum 16. Cognitive Dichotomies, Learning Directions, and the Cognitive ArchitectureRon Sun 17. What is Cultural Fit? From Cognition to Behavior (and Back)Sanaz Mobasseri, Amir Goldberg, and Sameer B. Srivistava Part III: Methods of Cognitive Sociology18. Productive Methods in the Study of Culture and CognitionTerence E. McDonnell and Kelcie L. Vercel 19. An Assessment of Methods for Measuring Automatic Cognition.Andrew Miles 20. Methods for Studying the Cultural Contextual Nature of Implicit CognitionHana Shepherd 21. Social Mindscapes and the Self: The Case for Social Pattern AnalysisJamie L. Mullaney 22. Charting the Emergence of the Cultural from the Cognitive with Agent-based ModelingLynette Shaw Part IV: The Sociology of Perception and Attention23. Sociology of Attention: Fundamental Reflections on a Theoretical ProgramMarkus Schroer 24. Risk, Culture, and CognitionDaina Cheyenne Harvey 25. Cultural Blind Spots and Blind Fields: Collective Forms of UnawarenessAsia Friedman Part V: Sociocultural Frames of Meaning, Metaphor, and Analogy26. The Sacred, Profane, Pure, Impure, and Social Energization of CultureDmitry Kurakin 27. Cognition and Social Meaning in Economic SociologyNina Bandelj and Christoffer Zoeller 28. Scientific Analogies and Hierarchical Thinking: Lessons from the Hive?Diane M. Rodgers 29. Getting a Foot in the Door: Symbolism, Door Metaphors, and the Cognitive Sociology of AccessStephanie Peña-AlvesPart VI: Categories, Boundaries, and Identities30. Foregrounding and Backgrounding: The Logic and Mechanics of Semiotic SubversionEviatar Zerubavel 31. War Widows and Welfare Queens: The Semiotics of Deservingness in the U.S. Welfare SystemBrittany Pearl Battle 32. Perceiving and Enacting Authentic IdentitiesJ. Patrick Williams 33. Cognitive Migrations: A Cultural and Cognitive Sociology of Personal TransformationThomas DeGloma and Erin F. Johnston Part VII: Time and Memory34. The Experience of Time in OrganizationsBenjamin H. Snyder 35. Silence and Collective MemoryVered Vinitzky-Seroussi and Chana Teeger
