Concepts and categories : foundations for sociological and cultural analysis /

A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cog...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Hannan, Michael T. (Autor), Mens, Gaël Le (Autor), Hsu, Greta (Autor), Kovács, Balázs (Autor), Negro, Giacomo (Of Emory University) (Autor), Pólos, László (Of Durham University) (Autor), Pontikes, Elizabeth (Autor), Sharkey, Amanda J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Colección:The middle range
Temas:
Categorization (Psychology)
Concepts.
Social psychology.
Psychology, Social
Catégorisation (Psychologie)
Psychologie sociale.
social psychology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Concepts in Sociological Analysis; Part I. Concepts and Spaces; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Semantic Space; 4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space; 5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts; 6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts; 7. Informativeness and Distinctiveness; Part II. Applying Concepts; 8. Categories and Categorization; 9. Free Categorization; 10. Concepts, Perception, and Inference; Part III. Bridges to Sociological Application; 11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast; 12. Valuation; Part IV. Concepts in Social Interaction13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement; 14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness; 15. Broadening the Scope of Application; Part V. Appendixes; Appendix A: Glossary of Technical Terms; Appendix B: Some Elemental First-Order Logic; Appendix C: Proofs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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