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Concepts and categories : foundations for sociological and cultural analysis / Michael T. Hannan, Gaël Le Mens, Greta Hsu, Balázs Kovács, Giacomo Negro, László Pólos, Elizabeth G. Pontiker, Amanda J. Sharkey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The middle rangePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231549938
  • 9780231549936
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Concepts and categories.DDC classification:
  • 121/.4 23
LOC classification:
  • BF445
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Concepts in Sociological Analysis; Part I. Concepts and Spaces; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Semantic Space; 4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space; 5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts; 6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts; 7. Informativeness and Distinctiveness; Part II. Applying Concepts; 8. Categories and Categorization; 9. Free Categorization; 10. Concepts, Perception, and Inference; Part III. Bridges to Sociological Application; 11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast; 12. Valuation; Part IV. Concepts in Social Interaction13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement; 14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness; 15. Broadening the Scope of Application; Part V. Appendixes; Appendix A: Glossary of Technical Terms; Appendix B: Some Elemental First-Order Logic; Appendix C: Proofs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts.
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A team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts.

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Concepts in Sociological Analysis; Part I. Concepts and Spaces; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Semantic Space; 4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space; 5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts; 6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts; 7. Informativeness and Distinctiveness; Part II. Applying Concepts; 8. Categories and Categorization; 9. Free Categorization; 10. Concepts, Perception, and Inference; Part III. Bridges to Sociological Application; 11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast; 12. Valuation; Part IV. Concepts in Social Interaction13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement; 14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness; 15. Broadening the Scope of Application; Part V. Appendixes; Appendix A: Glossary of Technical Terms; Appendix B: Some Elemental First-Order Logic; Appendix C: Proofs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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