Culture in Mind

Karen A. Cerulo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University where she specializes in culture and cognition research. She is the author of DecipheringViolence: The Cognitive Structure of Right and Wrong (Routledge, 1998).

Acknowledgements Dedication Chapter 1: Establishing a Sociology of Culture and Cognition, Karen A. Cerulo Section 1: Sensation and Attention Introduction Chapter 2: The Elephant in the Room: Notes on the Social Organization of Denial, Eviatar Zerubavel Chapter 3: Signals and Interpretive Work: The Role of Culture in a Theory of Practical Action, Diane Vaughan Section 2: Discrimination and Classification Introduction Chapter 4: Commensuration and Cognition, Wendy Nelson Espeland Chapter 5: Preterm Babies in the Mother Machine: Metaphoric Reasoning and Bureaucratic Rituals that Finish the Unfinished Infant, Nicole Isaacson Chapter 6: Cognition in Social Constructions: Market Rivalry Profile versus Cost Schedule, Harrison C. White Section 3: Representation and Integration Introduction Chapter 7: Moral Inquiry in Cultural Sociology, Robert Wuthnow Chapter 8: Individualism.'Pro tem': Reconsidering U.S. Social Relations, Karen A. Cerulo Chapter 9: Tracking Discourse, David Altheide Chapter 10: How Storytelling Can Be Empowering, William Gamson Section 4: Storage and Retrieval Introduction Chapter 11: Honor, Dignity, and Collective Memory: Judging the Past in Korea and the United States, Barry Schwartz and MiKyoung Park Chapter 12: Thinking About Evil: Adolf Hitler and the Dilemma of the Social Construction of Reputations, Gary Alan Fine Section 5: Building Bridges Introduction Chapter 13: Fixing a Foucault Sandwich: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Particulars in the Concept of Mental Disorders, Jerome C. Wakefield Chapter 14: Culture, Harmful Dysfunctions and the Sociology of Mental Illness, Allan V. Horowitz Chapter 15: Why Cognitive (and Cultural) Sociology Needs Cognitive Science, Paul Dimaggio Appendix: Mapping the Field, Karen A. Cerulo Contributor Notes Index