People-especially Americans-are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery ) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood ). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their lives than they are the worst. Though there are psychological reasons for this phenomenon, Karen A.Cerulo, in "Never Saw It Coming, " considers instead the role of society in fostering this attitude. What kinds of communities...
People-especially Americans-are by and large optimists. They're much better at imagining best-case scenarios (I could win the lottery ) than worst-...
Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo explores the ways in which individuals think about, depict and evaluate violence. Moving beyond typical studies that focus on violent story content, this book decodes the role of story structure itself and how the sequencing of facts can systematically influence our moral judgements of violent acts.
Drawing on media that includes television, newspaper, fiction, film, painting and photography, as well as interviews and focus groups, Karen Cerulo ex...
What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of fourteen original essays from some of the top sociologists in the country, including Eviatar Zerubavel, Diane Vaughan, Paul Dimaggio and Gary Alan Fine, among others, opens a dialogue between cognitive science and cultural sociology, encouraging a new network of scientific collaboration and stimulating new lines of social scientific research. Rather than considering thought as just an individual act, Culture in...
What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brai...
What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brain? This collection of 14 original essays from some of the top sociologists in the country, including Eviatar Zerubavel, Diane Vaughan, Paul Dimaggio and Gary Alan Fine, among others, opens a dialogue between cognitive science and cultural sociology, encouraging a new network of scientific collaboration and stimulating new lines of social scientific research. Rather than considering thought as just an individual act, this book considers it in a...
What is thought and how does one come to study and understand it? How does the mind work? Does cognitive science explain all the mysteries of the brai...
