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Mirror Neurons and Practices: A Response to Lizardo
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Lizardo argues that The Social Theory of Practices is refuted by the discovery of mirror neurons. The book argues that the kind of sameness of tacit mental content assumed by practice theorists such as Bourdieu is fictional, because there is no actual process by which the same mental content can be transmitted. Mirror neurons, Lizardo claims, provide such a mechanism, as they imply that bodily automatisms, which can be understood as the basis of habitus and concepts, can be shared and copied from one person to another. This response to Lizardo points out that the Gallese arguments on which Lizardo relies relate to phylogenetic and universal body movements, not to the learned movements characteristic of practices, and that there is no sameness producing mechanism parallel to the genetic one.
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“Turner's (2007, pp. 353-354) critique also highlights the problem of making inferences about implicitly shared cognitive elements on the basis of observable behavior of individuals, since this type of inferences are always underdetermined by the available observational data.”
From Two traditions of cognitive sociology: An analysis and assessment of their cognitive and methodological assumptions (2022) · cites this paper as Turner (2007)
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“But Turner(2007) maintains that these facts, contra Lizardo's(2007) claims, do not support the assumption that an embodied individual would be able to implicitly acquire an implicit cognitive element (e.g. a specific class habitus) that is assumed to be socially shared by the members of a particular group (e.g. a working class) by simply perceiving and simulating other members' actions.”
From Two traditions of cognitive sociology: An analysis and assessment of their cognitive and methodological assumptions (2022) · cites this paper as Turner(2007)
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- Authors
- TURNER, S. P.
- Affiliations
- University of South Florida (US)
- Corresponding author
- TURNER, STEPHEN P.
- Venue
- Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2007-09
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 351-371
- ISSN
- 0021-8308 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-5914
- OpenAlex
- W2164772570
- Cited by
- 35
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Cultural Capital and Social Class
- Keywords
- mirror neurons, practice theory, habitus, tacit knowledge, embodied cognition, Vittorio Gallese, Pierre Bourdieu
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