Culture in Mind: Toward a Sociology of Culture and Cognition

by Karen A. Cerulo

Book Overview

What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of fourteen original essays from some of the top sociologists in the country, including Eviatar Zerubavel, Diane Vaughan, Paul Dimaggio and Gary Alan Fine, among others, opens a dialogue between cognitive science and cultural sociology, encouraging a new network of scientific collaboration...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041592944X
• ISBN13: 9780415929448
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"