Culture and cognition : patterns in the social construction of reality / Wayne H. Brekhus.

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore? What cultural variation do we see in cognition? What general patterns do we see across this diversity and...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cultural sociology (Polity Press)
Main Author: Brekhus, Wayne
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015.
Series:Cultural sociology (Polity Press)
Subjects:
Cognition and culture.
Social psychology.
Kultur.
Kognition.
Soziale Konstruktion.
Physical Description:vi, 218 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: culture and cognition in sociology
  • Perception, attention, and framing: the sociology of relevance and irrelevance
  • Classification, categorization, and boundary work
  • Meaning-making, metaphor, and frames of meaning
  • Identity construction: identity authenticity, multidimensionality, and mobility
  • Memory and time
  • Conclusion.