Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 196
Author(s):  
Ann Branaman ◽  
Karen A. Cerulo
Keyword(s):  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Culture And Cognition

Risk, Culture, and Cognition

2019 ◽  
pp. 448-466
Author(s):  
Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Culture And Cognition ◽  
Risk Culture

For many researchers, risk is objective, fixed, and measurable. Social scientists, however, have long worked under the belief that risk is a social construction and is culturally determined. This chapter follows Wilkinson’s use of the term “risk” and the goal of the chapter is to review and map out the ways social actors perceive and make sense of hazards and conditions of threatening uncertainty. Such a contribution is generally seen to lie in the area of risk perception, risk communication, and risk responsibility. This chapter explores key contributions in the study of risk in these three areas through the lens of a sociology of culture and cognition. The chapter ends with some observations on risk and cognition from ethnographic research on the long-term aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

scholarly journals Welcome to the Real World: Escaping the Sociology of Culture and Cognition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Vaisey
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
Culture And Cognition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Recent Developments

Recent developments in cultural sociology show that our field remains entrenched in a troubling pattern. As Lizardo (2014) demonstrated, sociologists have a pathological relationship to interdisciplinarity. We tend to create internal “avatars” of other disciplines rather than working with them directly. This fools us into thinking that we’re interdisciplinary when, in reality, “[t]hese subdisciplinary avatars have been created by sociologists for sociological consumption” (Lizardo 2014: 985). Little has changed in the past seven years. In this paper, I will briefly examine one recent case - values - where some sociologists are actively resisting interdisciplinary engagement. I argue that most of their objections are unfounded. I then examine other, less obvious, mechanisms that discourage cultural sociologists from interdisciplinary dialogue.

Metaphor, Cognition, Culture

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Kövecses
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Conceptual Metaphors ◽  
Culture And Cognition ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Metaphor And Metonymy

The chapter reports on work concerned with the issue of how conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) functions as a link between culture and cognition. Three large areas are investigated to this effect. First, work on the interaction between conceptual metaphors, on the one hand, and folk and expert theories of emotion, on the other, is surveyed. Second, the issue of metaphorical universality and variation is addressed, together with that of the function of embodiment in metaphor. Third, a contextualist view of conceptual metaphors is proposed. The discussion of these issues leads to a new and integrated understanding of the role of metaphor and metonymy in creating cultural reality and that of metaphorical variation across and within cultures, as well as individuals.

Social Mindscapes and the Self

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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