Culture and Cognition: A Process Account of Culture

Section: Continuing the Story: Serial Position Effect Sequencing Ansupporting

confidence: 69%

Continuing the Story: Maximizing the Intersections of Cognitive Science and Sociology

Cerulo

2014

“…The "Sociology of Culture and Cognition" will probably exist in the future, and people differ with regard to what the field should look like (see Cerulo 2014;Danna 2014;Ignatow 2014;Pitts-Taylor 2014;and Shepherd 2014 for other 988 Lizardo perspectives). But as a sub-subfield buried deep within the recesses of the subsumptive hierarchy of the Comtean schema, it has no future.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the Comtean Schema: The Sociology of Culture and Cognition Versus Cognitive Social Science

Ližardo

2014

In this essay, I argue that the very form of the grammatical construction “a sociology of culture and cognition” (which is a specification of the more general schema “a sociology of [X]”) is symptomatic of a deeply entrenched form of “Primitive Classification” (which I will refer to as the “Comtean schema”) that governs the way in which sociologists conceive of their place in, and engage with other denizens of, the social science landscape. I will also argue that while this style of disciplinary engagement might have worked in the past when it came to dealing with the standard (nineteenth‐century) social science disciplines and even some late‐twentieth‐century upstarts, it will not work as a way to engage the now‐sprawling postdisciplinary field that I will refer to as “Cognitive Social Science” (CSS). The takeaway point is that if sociologists want to be part of CSS (and it is in their interest to be part of it because this constitutes the future of the behavioral sciences), then they will have to give up the Comtean‐schematic thought style.

“…In any event I think Lizardo () is on target in his depiction of us as an overgrown roundtable and a “loosely bound invisible college of people with heterogeneous interests in the cognitive science/sociology connection.” That's what we are, and that's a good thing. (Others see the field somewhat differently; see, e.g., Cerulo ; Danna ; Pitts‐Taylor ; Shepherd ). We are continuing a long‐standing sociological tradition of borrowing concepts from cognitive science (models, schemas, scripts), and before that from psychoanalysis, and repurposing those concepts for use in social research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontology and Method in Cognitive Sociology

Ignatow

2014

The sociology of cognition could serve as a more effective bridge between sociology and other disciplines, and more of a two-way thoroughfare, if we would consider doing the following two things, which we are already doing here and there. First, we need to take a stand in philosophy of social science debates. Second, we need to show how what we do contributes to sociological methods, and not only say that what we do contributes to sociological theory, however fundamental that contribution may be.