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The Rutgers School: A Zerubavelian Culturalist Cognitive Sociology
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In this article, the Zerubavelian culturalist cognitive paradigm which comprises an emerging Rutgers School of Sociology is presented. This perspective employs a comparative cognitive pluralist approach to the study of cognition and takes as its central premise that the mind is social. The key roots of the perspective in Simmelian classical sociology and in the twentieth-century sociology of knowledge approaches of Fleck, Mannheim, Berger and Luckmann and others are outlined. The key concepts and parameters of the field and its concern with perception, attention, classification, meaning-making, memory, time and identity are discussed. Finally, its methodological approach is outlined and it is suggested that the Zerubavelian perspective provides a unique analytic literacy that cuts across the various subfields of contemporary sociology.
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“CT aims to identify and describe the socially variable patterns of cultural cognition by means of case studies and comparative research that mainly utilize qualitative methods (Brekhus,2007).”
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“CT has built upon and extended Zerubavel's (e.g. 1991, 1997, 2019) pioneering work that has sought to develop a sociological approach to mental phenomena (Brekhus,2007).”
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“Zerubavel (1991, 1997) suggests that this process profoundly affects how we perceive the world and what we think and remember about it (see also Brekhus,2007, p. 454).”
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“Instead of seeking to integrate cultural sociology with the cognitive sciences, CT has aimed to complement cognitive sciences with sociological studies on the socially variable patterns of cultural cognition”
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“Instead, they aim to complement cognitive scientific explanations by describing how the contents of mental representations or meanings vary across groups, cultures and historical periods, how they are shaped by social and moral norms, and how they guide the cognitive processes of the groups of individuals in their real-life contexts (e.g. Brekhus,2007; Zerubavel,1997, pp. 21-22).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brekhus, W.
- Affiliations
- University of Missouri (US)
- Corresponding author
- Brekhus, Wayne
- ORCID
- Brekhus, Wayne
- Venue
- European Journal of Social Theory
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-08
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 448-464
- ISSN
- 1368-4310 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7137
- OpenAlex
- W2156970910
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 7.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Journal of Social Theory (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › German Social Sciences and History
- Keywords
- social mind, cognitive pluralism, sociology of knowledge, Georg Simmel, Fleck, Mannheim, Berger and Luckmann, perception, attention, classification, meaning-making, memory, time, identity, sociological methodology
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