scholarly journals Naturalist Methods in the Sociology of Creation: The Case Against Reductionism

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Dafne Muntanyola-Saura
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Integrated Models ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Cognitive Sociology ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Creative Cognition ◽  
Full Picture

The Sociology of Culture has much to say when it comes to the ever-changing general consensus on what constitutes legitimate culture and definitions of creativity. The naturalistic studieson cognition in social and cognitive sciences show this empirically (Bourdieu, 1979: Becker, 1982, 2002; Sennett, 2012; Author, 2014). Creative cognition is part of an institutional context. However, the influential culturalist branch of cognitive sociology (CCS) reduces creativity toa cognitivist psychological level (Lizardo and Strand, 2010). We start from the conjecture that the Sociology of Culture can draw on the naturalistic paradigm of cognition to explain creativity without falling into reductionist or atomist positions. The authors take the diversityof theoretical-empirical proposals into account in identifying the starting points for focusing the debate at both the macro and micro levels. The body of the article comprises a literature review which, while not exhaustive, offers a full picture of the pragmatic and integrated models of creativity. The studies analysed present inter-subjective processes of creationand the transmission of variable legitimate criteria concerning cultural consumption such as categorisations, evaluations and aesthetic judgments. The sociological perspective offers scope for strengthening critical tools for examining creativity.

scholarly journals Who Has the Body? Party Institutionalization and Theories of Party Organization

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise L. Baer
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Party Institutionalization ◽  
Environmental Challenge

This analysis seeks to codify and elucidate an emerging consensus among party scholars concerning the phenomenon and significance of the institutionalized party. More than the mere bureaucratization of party organizations, by adapting to environmental challenge an evolving “web of party” has sprouted new linkages between elites and non-elites, as well as among national and subnational executives and legislatures. Party scholarship, dominated until recently by non-institutional perspectives such as progressivism, behavioralism, and pluralism, needs to examine party institutionalization in a broader institutional context, i.e., as compared with Congress, the Presidency, and other prime political institutions, for which the advent of the institutionalized party has far-reaching implications.

The Medieval (Music) Book: A Multimodal Cognitive Artefact

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-204
Author(s):  
Kate Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Book History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Creative Cognition ◽  
Medieval Music ◽  
Single Opening ◽  
The Mind

This chapter considers the medieval book as an example of embedded creative cognition. Through a detailed case-study analysis of a single opening from the interpolated Livre de Fauvel, the chapter shows how the modern-day reader takes an active part in the cognitive ecology that produced the book. The argument draws on theories of distributed cognition, multimodality, book history, and the writings of Augustine of Hippo to demonstrate the close connections between the mind, the body, and the book that are both still in action and under transformation today.

Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-43
Author(s):  
Miranda Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Distributed Cognition ◽  
Art Music ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Renaissance Studies

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a background to current research in medieval and Renaissance studies on topics related to distributed cognition and to consider how the various chapters in this volume represent, reflect and advance work in this area. The volume brings together 14 chapters by international specialists working in the period between the ninth and the seventeenth century in the fields of law, history, drama, literature, art, music, philosophy, science and medicine. The chapters revitalise our reading of medieval and Renaissance works by bringing to bear recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind on the distributed nature of cognition. Together the chapters make evident the ways in which particular notions and practices of distributed cognition emerged from the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts that existed during this period. This chapter attempts to put these contributions in their wider research context by examining how such topics have been approached by mainstream scholarship, earlier work in the cognitive sciences and by existing applications of distributed cognition theory. It draws out both more general features of distributed cognition and what was distinctive about medieval and Renaissance insights into (and superstitions about) the cognitive roles of the body and environment. Throughout this chapter, I reference the chapters in this volume that provide further information on topics covered or take forward the issues in question. In the concluding section, I turn to a fuller overview of the chapters themselves

The Anthropological Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu: Genesis, Concepts, Relevance

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Defrance
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sociology Of Culture ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sport Culture ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Social Uses ◽  
Social Coherence

The works of Pierre Bourdieu contribute to the establishment of a true sociology of culture and open prospects for the sociology of sport. A review of the genesis of this sociology shows that it has been constructed through breaks with French sociology’s way of approaching culture in the 1960s. The presentation of some of Bourdieu’s concepts is intended to show how they illuminate the social coherence of cultural behaviors and how the latter fit together. Finally, the paper emphasizes the relevance of such cultural analyses for those who study the social uses of the body, sport culture, or physical education.

scholarly journals Social interoception functions and the global body data market

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-98
Author(s):  
P. N. Baryshnikov ◽  
M. N. Atakuev
Keyword(s):  
Research Area ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Conflict Zones ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Ethical Assessment ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Bodily Activity ◽  
Oriented Approach

The body-oriented approach in the philosophy of cognitive sciences is gaining in importance in the conditions of the formation of new high-tech contexts. The problem of interoception and integration of bodily data into socio-economic processes requires a comprehensive analysis and ethical assessment. This article examines the conceptual foundations of the body-oriented approach and its impact on the essence of cognitive processes. The main advantages and disadvantages of this approach are presented. We consider the methodological conflict zones of the bodily paradigm and traditional methodological attitudes of the cognitive sciences. The system ofinteroceptive sensations is a special «layer» of bodily experience. The social functions of interoceptive sensations are an interdisciplinary research area that focuses on the mechanisms of interaction between the private content of bodily experience and systems of social interaction. The regularity between interoceptive sensations and human behavioral patterns reflects the importance of examining bodily data. Today, the market for bodily data is just beginning to form, but at the same time it is already playing an important role in global digital transformation processes. A multitude of applications and wearable digital devices that track bodily activity and generate gigantic amounts of data are used today by millions of people around the world. The identification of bodily activity leads to the emergence of new forms of interaction between a person and socio-institutional systems, the specific properties of which are also considered in this article.

scholarly journals Reproductions, cultural capital and museums: aspects of the culture of copies

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Fyfe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Museum Studies ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Sociology Of The Body ◽  
Cultural Character ◽  
Visitor Research ◽  
The 1960S

The concept of cultural capital is well known in museum studies from pioneering visitor research conducted and reported by Pierre Bourdieu in the 1960s. This paper examines the concept in the light of the criticism that, whilst it illuminates the dynamics of cultural consumption and inequality in advanced capitalist societies, its socio-genesis is less well understood. It is argued that the historical sociology of fine art reproduction provides an opportunity to (i) enlarge our understanding of its formation and (ii) to explore the cultural character of the copy and the sociology of the body. The paper draws on Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation, on Connerton’s distinction between incorporated and inscribing practices and on Bourdieu’s distinction between three states of cultural capital.

Filling in’ the State: Economic Governance and the Evolution of Devolution in Wales

10.1068/c39m ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys Jones ◽  
Mark Goodwin ◽  
Martin Jones ◽  
Kevin Pett
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Organisational Context ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Future ◽  
Scalar Structure

We examine the unfolding dynamics of devolution and economic governance in the United Kingdom. We maintain that devolution has set in train a series of far-reaching organisational and institutional changes in the various UK territories. Although devolution in the United Kingdom can be described, following Jessop, as an aspect of the ‘hollowing out’ of the state, we argue conversely that the various UK territories are being ‘filled in’ in a number of important ways. The notion of ‘filling in’, we argue, draws attention to the spatially contingent impact of devolution on the various UK territories. We examine this process of ‘filling in’ specifically in the context of the economic governance of Wales. In particular, we focus on the creation of Education and Learning Wales (ELWa) the body charged with improving the education and skills of the Welsh workforce, as well as with encouraging entrepreneurship within Wales. It highlights the need to consider: in an organisational context, the territorial and scalar structure of ELWa and its role in collaborating with other organisations of economic governance; and in an institutional context, the development of a new working culture within the organisation. Given the close associations between devolution and economic governance, we suggest that the success or otherwise of ELWa in overcoming these challenges has the potential to affect the future trajectories, and public and political evaluations, of devolution in Wales.

scholarly journals Sartre and Merleau-Ponty’s Theories of Perception as Cognition in the Context of Phenomenological Thought in Cognitive Sciences

Diametros ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Marta Agata Chojnacka
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Body Consciousness ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Shaun Gallagher ◽  
Contemporary Context

Husserl’s phenomenology was particularly influential for a number of French philosophers and their theories. Two of the most prominent French thinkers, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, turned to the instruments offered by phenomenology in their attempts to understand the notions of the body, consciousness, imagination, human being, world and many others. Both philosophers also provided their definitions of perception, but they understood this notion in very different ways. The paper describes selected aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology that were adopted by Sartre and Merleau-Ponty and depicts the presumptions of their respective theories of perception, as well as the differences between them. The main thesis presented here is that theories as different as those proposed by Sartre and Merleau-Ponty may, and indeed do, lead to the same conclusion, i.e. that perception represents a different form of cognition. Despite the differences between these theories, they can both be placed in the contemporary context of phenomenological research carried out by cognitive philosophers Dan Zahavi and Shaun Gallagher, as well as by the proponent of the enactive theory of perception, Alva Noë.

Eye Movement, I. A. Richards, and the Limits of Embodied Reading

Poetics Today ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 475-501
Author(s):  
Benjamin Kossak
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Cognitive Sciences ◽  
Literary Experience

I. A. Richards is often remembered as a father of close reading and New Criticism, but his work was also deeply indebted to experimental psychology. That cross-disciplinary foundation introduces not only a reader but also a reading body. This article traces Richards’s continual invocation and deferral of the body, with particular attention to the eyes, which for Richards stand at the beginning and outside of the literary experience. The author argues that this deferral exists in Richards’s work and persists into embodied cognitive science’s research into eye movement in reading today because in both cases the movement is filtered down to what is meaningful for cognition or experience. Turning to recent literary criticism that engages with eye movement, the article suggests a path forward that uses the body of research built over 140 years in psychology and cognitive sciences to open new ground for criticism, disrupt our understanding of reading, and develop new bodily poetics.

GENRE SPECIFICS AND MOTIVES OF THE NOVEL „BIEGUNI” („FLIGHTS”) BY OLGA TOKARCZUK

2019 ◽  
pp. 466-474
Author(s):  
Olha Kovalenko
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
To Come ◽  
Postmodern Novel ◽  
Personal Meeting ◽  
The One

In this article was considered genre specifics and motives of the novel “Bieguni” (“Flights”) by polish writer Olga Tokarczuk. On the example of the novel was determined the main genre specifics of postmodern novel-travelogue, where was raised the main issues of present days – life and death, physical and spiritual, workaday and philosophical. “Bieguni” is the novel about modern people, which looking for their goal, situated in a constantly movement just not to come to the Antichrist`s hands. The airports and hotels aren`t only a shelter, it`s a real home, what underline motive of travel in the novel. Representing home in a different ways, the writer consider the human body as a shelter for two components – spiritual and material. The body that was created by God is physical “home” for self-awareness. Herewith the writer doesn`t reject physiological theory of body beginning and consider it as a product of completing, finishing and the signification of human`s death. Address to Biblical, religious, mythological, bibliographic and oniric motives again and again underline anti-utopy world with his own canons and decrees, what doesn`t submit to logical, grounded explanation, but have philosophical elucidation. “Bieguni” it`s a binding of stories, feelings and laws. The main characters of the composition are different aged, nationality and different time period people, but united by just one important thing – searching of sense of life, that is different for everyone of them. Variety of characters, story of everyone`s life, text`s fragmentation give to the reader experience of personal meeting with every literature character. The hidden drama, that attendanted in everyone of them create the aureole of mystique, mysteriousness and feeling of temporarily proximity, that`s the main feeling of traveler. The leitmotif of the novel unite fragments into the one full picture, where we can see the main thesis of the novel: “Movement is a life, life is a travel”, because at the travel we can see a human`s wish to find the salvation out of routine problems, social duties and conditionalities. Characteristic for the novel using of philosophical and Biblical motives and also application to the history and author`s experience are non-textual survey of art of Olga Tokarczuk and her own morally-pscychological skills.

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