In recent years there has been a growing interest in cognition
within sociology and other social sciences. Within sociology this
interest cuts across various topical subfields, including culture,
social psychology, religion, race, and identity. Scholars within
the new subfield of cognitive sociology, also referred to as the
sociology of culture and cognition, are contributing to a rapidly
developing body of work on how mental and social phenomena are
interrelated and often interdependent. In The Oxford Handbook of
Cognitive Sociology, Wayne H. Brekhus and Gabe Igantow have
gathered some of the most influential scholars working in cognitive
sociology to present an accessible introduction to key research
areas in a diverse field. While classical sociological and newer
interdisciplinary approaches have been covered separately by
scholars in the past, this volume alternatively presents a broad
range of cognitive sociological perspectives. The contributors
discuss a range of approaches for theorizing and analyzing the
"social mind," including macro-cultural approaches, interactionist
approaches, and research that draws on Pierre Bourdieu's major
concepts. Each chapter further investigates a variety of cognitive
processes within these three approaches, such as attention and
inattention, perception, automatic and deliberate cognition,
cognition and social action, stereotypes, categorization,
classification, judgment, symbolic boundaries, meaning-making,
metaphor, embodied cognition, morality and religion, identity
construction, time sequencing, and memory. A comprehensive look at
cognitive sociology's main contributions and the central debates
within the field, the Handbook will serve as a primary resource for
social researchers, faculty, and students interested in how
cognitive sociology can contribute to research within their
substantive areas of focus.
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