Karen A. Cerulo
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226100326
- eISBN:
- 9780226100296
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226100296.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter discusses the coverage of this volume which is about envisioning the worst. Building on theories and ideas forwarded by both cultural and cognitive sociologists, this chapter argues that ...
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This chapter discusses the coverage of this volume which is about envisioning the worst. Building on theories and ideas forwarded by both cultural and cognitive sociologists, this chapter argues that the inability to envision and specify the worst is, in part, a sociocultural phenomenon. It explains that the worst can become a perceptual blind spot, obscured or blurred by a variety of routine and patterned sociocultural practice and this makes it hard to define. This chapter also provides a summary of the chapters in this volume.Less
This chapter discusses the coverage of this volume which is about envisioning the worst. Building on theories and ideas forwarded by both cultural and cognitive sociologists, this chapter argues that the inability to envision and specify the worst is, in part, a sociocultural phenomenon. It explains that the worst can become a perceptual blind spot, obscured or blurred by a variety of routine and patterned sociocultural practice and this makes it hard to define. This chapter also provides a summary of the chapters in this volume.
Jung-ran Park
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622098114
- eISBN:
- 9789882206830
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622098114.003.0008
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This chapter examines the cultural issues and controversies involved in the theoretical frameworks of linguistic politeness. It analyzes the theoretical accounts of non-Western sociocultural ...
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This chapter examines the cultural issues and controversies involved in the theoretical frameworks of linguistic politeness. It analyzes the theoretical accounts of non-Western sociocultural phenomena and the concept of face and suggests that linguistic politeness can and should be seen as a sociocultural phenomenon. It contends that the cultural case of politeness is merely a sign of all other sociocultural signs.Less
This chapter examines the cultural issues and controversies involved in the theoretical frameworks of linguistic politeness. It analyzes the theoretical accounts of non-Western sociocultural phenomena and the concept of face and suggests that linguistic politeness can and should be seen as a sociocultural phenomenon. It contends that the cultural case of politeness is merely a sign of all other sociocultural signs.
Vlad Petre Glăveanu and Tania Zittoun
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190468712
- eISBN:
- 9780190698843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190468712.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
In this final chapter, the authors first highlight the main contributions of the Handbook and show how these help us ground imagination research within the sociocultural tradition. On this basis, ...
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In this final chapter, the authors first highlight the main contributions of the Handbook and show how these help us ground imagination research within the sociocultural tradition. On this basis, several new topics and questions emerging from this unique collection of chapters are identified, issues that require further study and conceptual integration. These new concerns are then used to complement the authors’ initial framework—the loop model—and expand it into a more integrative, cultural perspective on the imagination using the metaphor of ‘trails of the imagination’. Finally, this final chapter reconnects the emerging field of imagination as sociocultural phenomenon with other key themes in ways that place it firmly on the research agenda of scholars and practitioners interested in the relation between mind and culture.Less
In this final chapter, the authors first highlight the main contributions of the Handbook and show how these help us ground imagination research within the sociocultural tradition. On this basis, several new topics and questions emerging from this unique collection of chapters are identified, issues that require further study and conceptual integration. These new concerns are then used to complement the authors’ initial framework—the loop model—and expand it into a more integrative, cultural perspective on the imagination using the metaphor of ‘trails of the imagination’. Finally, this final chapter reconnects the emerging field of imagination as sociocultural phenomenon with other key themes in ways that place it firmly on the research agenda of scholars and practitioners interested in the relation between mind and culture.
