Introduction

A Cartography of Contemporary Cognitive Social Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2397772
AutoresPiet Strydom (0000-0003-0581-8912, University College Cork)
Ano2007
Volume10
Fascículo3
Páginas339-356
Data de publicação2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal of Social Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1368-4310 • E-ISSN: 1461-7137
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1368431007080699
OpenAlexW2044426186
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas46

Cognitive Science and Social TheoryWhereas the cognitive revolution's impact on the social sciences was more indirect than on disciplines like psychology and linguistics, anthropology was nevertheless earlier and more directly affected than sociology.Given the paradigm shift from behaviour to cognition, this can be accounted for by the fact that anthropology to a degree shared a behaviouristic orientation with psychology and linguistics.By contrast, sociology has a long tradition of studying ideas, beliefs, convictions, motivations, categories and knowledge.This concern allowed it not only to anticipate -albeit somewhat obliquelythe cognitive revolution in certain respects, as for instance did Weber, Simmel, Durkheim, Mannheim, Mead, Schutz and Adorno, but also to latch to a certain extent quite seamlessly -albeit not very explicitly -onto it.This latter relation is encapsulated by the so-called 'cognitive turn [in] sociology' (Knorr-Cetina and Cicourel 1981: 2; Fuller 1984) which occurred during the late 1960s and 70s borne by theorists like Berger and Luckmann

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