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Author |
: Stephen Turner |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 2002-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226817393 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226817392 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brains/Practices/Relativism by : Stephen Turner
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Social Theory After Cognitive Science1. Throwing Out the Tacit Rule Book: Learning and Practices2. Searle's Social Reality3. Imitation or the Internalization of Norms: Is Twentieth-Century Social Theory Based on the Wrong Choice?4. Relativism as Explanation5. The Limits of Social Constructionism6. Making Normative Soup Out of Nonnormative Bones7. Teaching Subtlety of Thought: The Lessons of "Contextualism"8. Practice in Real Time9. The Significance of ShilsReferences Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author |
: Stephen P. Turner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 446 |
Release |
: 2018-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351180504 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351180509 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cognitive Science and the Social by : Stephen P. Turner
The rise of cognitive neuroscience is the most important scientific and intellectual development of the last thirty years. Findings pour forth, and major initiatives for brain research continue. The social sciences have responded to this development slowly--for good reasons. The implications of particular controversial findings, such as the discovery of mirror neurons, have been ambiguous, controversial within neuroscience itself, and difficult to integrate with conventional social science. Yet many of these findings, such as those of experimental neuro-economics, pose very direct challenges to standard social science. At the same time, however, the known facts of social science, for example about linguistic and moral diversity, pose a significant challenge to standard neuroscience approaches, which tend to focus on "universal" aspects of human and animal cognition. A serious encounter between cognitive neuroscience and social science is likely to be challenging, and transformative, for both parties. Although a literature has developed on proposals to integrate neuroscience and social science, these proposals go in divergent directions. None of them has a developed conception of social life. This book surveys these issues, introduces the basic alternative conceptions both of the mental world and the social world, and show how, with sufficient modification, they can be fit together in plausible ways. The book is not a "new theory " of anything, but rather an exploration of the critical issues that relate to the social aspects of cognition which expands the topic from the social neuroscience of immediate interpersonal interaction to the whole range of places where social variation interacts with the cognitive. The focus is on the conceptual problems produced by any attempt to take these issues seriously, and also on the new resources and considerations relevant to doing so. But it is also on the need for a revision of social theoretical concepts in order to utilize these resources. The book points to some conclusions, especially about how the process of what was known as socialization needs to be understood in cognitive science friendly terms. But there is no attempt to resolve the underlying issues within cognitive science, which will doubtless persist.
Author |
: Daniel H. Lende |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 449 |
Release |
: 2012-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262304740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262304740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Encultured Brain by : Daniel H. Lende
Basic concepts and case studies from an emerging field that investigates human capacities and pathologies at the intersection of brain and culture. The brain and the nervous system are our most cultural organs. Our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and open to cultural sculpting at multiple levels. Recognizing this, the new field of neuroanthropology places the brain at the center of discussions about human nature and culture. Anthropology offers brain science more robust accounts of enculturation to explain observable difference in brain function; neuroscience offers anthropology evidence of neuroplasticity's role in social and cultural dynamics. This book provides a foundational text for neuroanthropology, offering basic concepts and case studies at the intersection of brain and culture. After an overview of the field and background information on recent research in biology, a series of case studies demonstrate neuroanthropology in practice. Contributors first focus on capabilities and skills—including memory in medical practice, skill acquisition in martial arts, and the role of humor in coping with breast cancer treatment and recovery—then report on problems and pathologies that range from post-traumatic stress disorder among veterans to smoking as a part of college social life. Contributors Mauro C. Balieiro, Kathryn Bouskill, Rachel S. Brezis, Benjamin Campbell, Greg Downey, José Ernesto dos Santos, William W. Dressler, Erin P. Finley, Agustín Fuentes, M. Cameron Hay, Daniel H. Lende, Katherine C. MacKinnon, Katja Pettinen, Peter G. Stromberg
Author |
: Stephen P. Turner |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134643950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134643950 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding the Tacit by : Stephen P. Turner
This book outlines a new account of the tacit, meaning tacit knowledge, presuppositions, practices, traditions, and so forth. It includes essays on topics such as underdetermination and mutual understanding, and critical discussions of the major alternative approaches to the tacit, including Bourdieu’s habitus and various practice theories, Oakeshott’s account of tradition, Quentin Skinner’s theory of historical meaning, Harry Collins’s idea of collective tacit knowledge, as well as discussions of relevant cognitive science concepts, such as non-conceptual content, connectionism, and mirror neurons. The new account of tacit knowledge focuses on the fact that in making the tacit explicit, a person is not, as many past accounts have supposed, reading off the content of some sort of shared and fixed tacit scheme of presuppositions, but rather responding to the needs of the Other for understanding.
Author |
: Laurence J. Kirmayer |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 683 |
Release |
: 2020-09-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108580571 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108580572 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture, Mind, and Brain by : Laurence J. Kirmayer
Recent neuroscience research makes it clear that human biology is cultural biology - we develop and live our lives in socially constructed worlds that vary widely in their structure values, and institutions. This integrative volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from the human, social, and biological sciences to explore culture, mind, and brain interactions and their impact on personal and societal issues. Contributors provide a fresh look at emerging concepts, models, and applications of the co-constitution of culture, mind, and brain. Chapters survey the latest theoretical and methodological insights alongside the challenges in this area, and describe how these new ideas are being applied in the sciences, humanities, arts, mental health, and everyday life. Readers will gain new appreciation of the ways in which our unique biology and cultural diversity shape behavior and experience, and our ongoing adaptation to a constantly changing world.
Author |
: Iain McGilchrist |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 615 |
Release |
: 2019-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300245929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300245920 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Master and His Emissary by : Iain McGilchrist
A new edition of the bestselling classic – published with a special introduction to mark its 10th anniversary This pioneering account sets out to understand the structure of the human brain – the place where mind meets matter. Until recently, the left hemisphere of our brain has been seen as the ‘rational’ side, the superior partner to the right. But is this distinction true? Drawing on a vast body of experimental research, Iain McGilchrist argues while our left brain makes for a wonderful servant, it is a very poor master. As he shows, it is the right side which is the more reliable and insightful. Without it, our world would be mechanistic – stripped of depth, colour and value.
Author |
: Henry Linger |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 699 |
Release |
: 2013-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781475748529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1475748523 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy by : Henry Linger
Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice is the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Development, held in Melbourne, Australia, August 29-31, 2003. The purpose of these proceedings is to provide a forum for research and practice addressing current issues associated with Information Systems Development (ISD). ISD is undergoing dramatic transformation; every day, new technologies, applications, and methods raise the standards for the quality of systems expected by organizations as well as end users. All are becoming more dependent on the systems reliability, scalability, and performance. Thus, it is crucial to exchange ideas and experiences, and to stimulate exploration of new solutions. This proceedings provides a forum for just that, addressing both technical and organizational issues.
Author |
: M. Hewitson |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2014-01-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137372406 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137372400 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and Causality by : M. Hewitson
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after the linguistic turn have paid surprisingly little attention to causes in spite of the centrality of causation in many contemporary works of history.
Author |
: Stephen Turner |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2022-09-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781803826691 |
ISBN-13 |
: 180382669X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mad Hazard by : Stephen Turner
Revealing an academic career not dependent on prestige and academic power, but also not untouched by hierarchy and academic politics, Mad Hazard is appealing for readers interested in the field of social theory, and beyond that, those interested in the evolution of intellectual life in the present university.
Author |
: Werner Schirmer |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2019-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429663987 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429663986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Systems Theory for Social Work and the Helping Professions by : Werner Schirmer
Social systems occur in many contexts of social work. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to systems thinking for social workers who will encounter social problems in their professional practice or academic research. It offers new insights and fresh perspectives on this familiar topic and invites creative, critical, and empathetic thinking with a systems perspective. Through introducing systems theory as a problem-oriented approach for dealing with complex interpersonal relations and social systems, this book provides a framework for studying social relations. The authors present a strand of systems theory (inspired by sociologist Niklas Luhmann) that offers innovative, surprising, and practically relevant understandings of everyday social life, inclusion/exclusion, social problems, interventions, and society in general. Systems Theory for Social Work and the Helping Professions should be considered essential reading for all social work students taking modules on sociology and social policy as well as students of nursing, medicine, counselling, and occupational health and therapy.