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Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory

English · Paperback / Softback

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The Cognitive Foundations of Classical Sociological Theory explores the role that understandings of mind and brain played in the development of sociological theory.


List of contents










1. The Neurosociology of Auguste Comte 2. Subject, Object, Extension: Karl Marx and Distributed Cognition 3. The Ideal Brain: Reality, Concepts, and Expectation in Max Weber 4. Disciplined Cognition: Sense, Reason, and Morality in Émile Durkheim 5. The Body in Mind: Mead's Embodied Cognition 6. Conclusion


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Ryan McVeigh is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Lakehead University, Orillia. His research highlights the tensions and congruencies between sociology and cognitive science, specifically by exploring how understandings of cognition grounded the production of classic social theory. He is currently Chair of the Cognitive Sociology research cluster with the Canadian Sociological Association.


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