Cognitive Sociology after Relational Biology 1

Social Mindscapes and the Self

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190273385.013.21 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 387-402

Author(s):

Jamie L. Mullaney

Keyword(s):

Pattern Analysis ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

The Self ◽

Cognitive Sociology ◽

Disciplinary Boundaries ◽

Culture And Cognition ◽

Identity Processes ◽

Sociological Thought ◽

The Relationship

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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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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Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists

American Sociological Review ◽

10.1177/0003122417728719 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 82 (6) ◽

pp. 1167-1187 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Pete Simi ◽

Kathleen Blee ◽

Matthew DeMichele ◽

Steven Windisch

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Physiological Responses ◽

The Self ◽

Cognitive Sociology ◽

Recent Advances ◽

White Supremacists ◽

Using Data ◽

Desire To Change

The process of leaving deeply meaningful and embodied identities can be experienced as a struggle against addiction, with continuing cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses that are involuntary, unwanted, and triggered by environmental factors. Using data derived from a unique set of in-depth life history interviews with 89 former U.S. white supremacists, as well as theories derived from recent advances in cognitive sociology, we examine how a rejected identity can persist despite a desire to change. Disengagement from white supremacy is characterized by substantial lingering effects that subjects describe as addiction. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of identity residual for understanding how people leave and for theories of the self.

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Relational Biology and the Origin of Life

Molecular Evolution and Protobiology ◽

10.1007/978-1-4684-4640-1_31 ◽

1984 ◽

pp. 421-431

Author(s):

Robert Rosen

Keyword(s):

Origin Of Life ◽

Relational Biology ◽

The Origin Of Life

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Ways and dynamics of reception of Ludwik Fleck’s work in the social sciences

Social Science Information ◽

10.1177/0539018414566422 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 192-210

Author(s):

Dimitri Ginev

Keyword(s):

Social Sciences ◽

Intellectual History ◽

Clinical Medicine ◽

Social Geography ◽

Cognitive Sociology ◽

Comparative Sociology ◽

The Social ◽

History Of ◽

Thought Styles

The problem of how to access and estimate the proliferation of receptions of Ludwik Fleck’s work in domains as diverse as social geography, history of clinical medicine, and cognitive sociology has long remained vexing. The approach suggested in this paper combines the hermeneutics of effective-historical reception with a version of epistemic reconstruction of intellectual history. Special emphasis is placed upon the forms of political contextualization of Fleck’s comparative sociology of thought styles. The author argues that the heterogeneity of receptions is essentially informed by the specificity of the ‘implicit reader’ Fleck assigned to his work. Interestingly enough, it is a ‘reader’ congruent with the post-metaphysical turns in the social sciences. This claim is defended by analyzing particular trajectories of reception of Fleck’s work.

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