Culture and Cognition
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Recent work in cognitive psychology and social cognition bears heavily on concerns of sociologists of culture. Cognitive research confirms views of culture as fragmented; clarifies the roles of institutions and agency; and illuminates supra-individual aspects of culture. Individuals experience culture as disparate bits of information and as schematic structures that organize that information. Culture carried by institutions, networks, and social movements diffuses, activates, and selects among available schemata. Implications for the study of identity, collective memory, social classification, and logics of action are developed.
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IT has been influenced by DiMaggio's review article in which he argues that the cognitive sciences provide conceptual tools and empirical findings for clarifying and resolving theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in cultural sociology.
“IT has been influenced by DiMaggio's (1997) influential review article in which he argues that the cognitive sciences (broadly understood) provide conceptual tools and empirical findings for clarifying and resolving theoretical and meta-theoretical debates in cultural sociology.”
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“In his review article, DiMaggio (1997) defended Swidler's tool kit theory against Parsonian “latent variable model of culture” by addressing cognitive psychological and cognitive anthropological research on schemas that, he argued, provide a plausible cognitive mechanism through which people…”
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- Authors
- DiMaggio, P.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- DiMaggio, Paul
- ORCID
- DiMaggio, Paul
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1997-08
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 263-287
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W2104190044
- Cited by
- 3,161
- References
- 5
- Citations by year
- 2026: 128 · 2025: 147 · 2024: 120 · 2023: 124 · 2022: 145 · 2021: 168 · 2020: 128 · 2019: 175 · 2018: 119 · 2017: 175 · 2016: 132 · 2015: 149 · 2014: 152 · 2013: 156 · 2012: 127
- Type
- conference abstract
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Stryker
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Representations and Identity
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Keywords
- culture and cognition, social cognition, cognitive psychology, cultural schemas, institutions, agency, social movements, identity, collective memory, social categorization, action logics
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