Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance
ISBN-10
0199366616
ISBN-13
9780199366613
Series
Hidden in Plain Sight
Category
Psychology
Pages
199
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Eviatar Zerubavel

Description

While examining its neuro-cognitive hardware, psychology usually ignores the socio-cognitive software underlying human attention. Yet although it is nature that equips us with our sense organs, it is nevertheless society that shapes the way we actually use them. The book explores the social underpinnings of attention, the way in which we focus our attention (and thereby notice and ignore things) not just as individuals and as humans but also as social beings, members of particular communities with specific traditions and conventions of attending to certain parts of reality while ignoring others.

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