The National Teacher Shortage, Urban Education and the Cognitive Sociology of Labor

While the relationship between culture and cognition has long-standing roots in sociological thought, scholars face the issue regarding how to “do” cognitive sociology. This chapter discusses the methodological approach of social pattern analysis (SPA) from Zerubavel’s social mindscapes tradition or culturalist cognitive sociology (SM/CCS), which encourages researchers to move away from content-driven inquiries toward those that explore processes across time, context, and even disciplinary boundaries. Using the specific example of virginity studies, the chapter then demonstrates how the flexible nature of SPA may serve as an asset in understanding generic identity processes more broadly.

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Cognitive Sociology

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190273385.013.2 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 29-41

Author(s):

Eviatar Zerubavel

Keyword(s):

Emile Durkheim ◽

Alfred Schutz ◽

Ludwik Fleck ◽

Cognitive Sociology ◽

Karl Mannheim ◽

Alfred Schütz ◽

The Rich ◽

Thought Communities ◽

The Way

Following in the rich intellectual footsteps of Emile Durkheim, Karl Mannheim, Alfred Schutz, and Ludwik Fleck, this chapter lays out the foundations for the sociology of thinking, or “cognitive sociology.” Focusing on the impersonal, normative, and conventional dimensions of the way we think (and, as such, on its distinctness from both cognitive individualism and universalism), it highlights the distinctly sociological concern with intersubjectivity as well as epistemic commitment to the study of thought communities, cognitive traditions, cognitive norms, cognitive socialization, cognitive conventions, and the politics of cognition.

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Art Teacher Shortage?

College Art Journal ◽

10.2307/773800 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 58

Author(s):

Kenneth C. Lindsay

Keyword(s):

Teacher Shortage ◽

Art Teacher

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Meeting Teacher Shortage in Wartime Physical Education

The bulletin of the National Association of Secondary School Principals ◽

10.1177/019263654302711807 ◽

1943 ◽

Vol 27 (118) ◽

pp. 65-76

Author(s):

Committee on Meeting Teacher Shorta

Keyword(s):

Physical Education ◽

Teacher Shortage

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Deploying Cognitive Sociology to Advance Human Rights

Comparative Sociology ◽

10.1163/156913210x12459795840783 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 279-307 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Benjamin Gregg

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Social Construction ◽

Female Genital Mutilation ◽

Frame Analysis ◽

Local Culture ◽

Cognitive Sociology ◽

Cognitive Approach ◽

Child Prostitution ◽

Genital Mutilation ◽

Female Genital

AbstractNo one, neither speculative philosopher nor empirical anthropologist, has ever shown human rights to be anything other than a culturally particular social construction. If human rights are not natural, divine, or metaphysical, then they can only be a social construction of particular cultures. If so, then many cultures may justifiably reject them as culturally foreign and hence without local normative validity. In response to this conclusion I develop a cognitive approach to any local culture ‐ a cognitive approach in distinction to a normative one. It allows for advancing human rights as rights internal to any given community’s culture. Human rights can be advanced internally by means of “cognitive re-framing,” a notion I develop out of Erving Goffman’s theory of frame analysis. I deploy it in two examples: female genital mutilation in Africa and child prostitution in Asia.

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