Culture and Cognition: Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality Wayne H. Brekhus.

By:

Brekhus, Wayne

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2015Description: vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780745671765 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780745671772 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.4/2 23

LOC classification:

BF311 .B7224 2015

Summary: In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus, shows us the many ways that culture influences our cognitive thought processes. Drawing on a wide range of fascinating examples, such as how members of different subcultures perceive danger and safety, how cultures variably classify and perceptually weight race, how social actors use and present identity as a strategic resource, and how people across different organizational setting experience time, the author takes us on creative, diverse, and insightful tour of the socio-cultural character of cognition.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main Library Reserve	306.4'2 B828 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3BPSU00017162S

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-210) and index.

In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus, shows us the many ways that culture influences our cognitive thought processes. Drawing on a wide range of fascinating examples, such as how members of different subcultures perceive danger and safety, how cultures variably classify and perceptually weight race, how social actors use and present identity as a strategic resource, and how people across different organizational setting experience time, the author takes us on creative, diverse, and insightful tour of the socio-cultural character of cognition.

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