Culture and Cognition - Grand Format

How does culture shape our thinking ? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter into our mental worlds ? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and what we ignore ? What cultural variation do we see in cognition ? What general patterns do we see across this diversity and variation ? In this lively and engaging book, Wayne H. Brekhus shows us the many ways that culture influences ur cognitive thought processes.
Drawing on a wide range of fascinating exam-pies, 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 organiutional settings experience time, Brekhus takes us on a creative, diverse, and insightful tour of the sociocultural character of cognition.
Culture and Cognition : Patterns in the Social Construction of Reality offers an invaluable survey of a wide-ranging body of research in the sociology of culture and cognition that will be an inviting resource for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and established research scholars alike.