Does Cognitive Structure Ground Social Structure? The Case of the Radical Enlightenment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12823069
AutoresLaurence Fiddick (Lakehead University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen20
Número3-4
Páginas317-337
Fecha de publicación2020-08-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Cognition and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1567-7095 • E-ISSN: 1568-5373
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/15685373-12340087
OpenAlexW3080334650
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas26

Cross-culturally two widely observed forms of social structure are individualism (open societies) and ascribed hierarchies (closed societies). Associated with these two types of social structure are a wide range of recurrent concomitant features. It is proposed that these two forms of social structure are common, in part, because they are associated with modular forms of understanding that lend intuitive support to them. In particular, it is proposed that individualistic open societies are associated with a folk-physics mode of construal whereas closed societies are associated with a folk-biological mode of construal. These distinctions are illustrated with the European Enlightenment as a hypothesized transition from closed to open societies

Cognition · Common ground · Construal level theory · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Individualism · Metaphysics · Philosophy of mind · Political science · Sociology · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology