The Social Origins of Thought
The Social Origins of Thought

Author: Johannes F.M. Schick

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-03-11

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1800732341

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By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

Origins of the Social Mind
Origins of the Social Mind

Author: Bruce J. Ellis

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9781593851033

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Applying an evolutionary framework to advance the understanding of child development, this volume brings together leading figures to contribute chapters in their areas of expertise. Researcher- and student-friendly chapters adhere to a common format.

Others in Mind
Others in Mind

Author: Philippe Rochat

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0521506352

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Based on empirical observations, this innovative book explores self-consciousness, how it originates and how it shapes our lives.

The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought
The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought

Author: Werner Stark

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1135035091

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Published in 1998, The Fundamental Forms of Social Thought is a valuable contribution to the field of Sociology and Social Policy.

A History of Social Thought
A History of Social Thought

Author: Emory Stephen Bogardus

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2018-02-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9781377583211

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The Social Origins of Language
The Social Origins of Language

Author: Robert M. Seyfarth

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2017-12-05

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 140088814X

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How human language evolved from the need for social communication The origins of human language remain hotly debated. Despite growing appreciation of cognitive and neural continuity between humans and other animals, an evolutionary account of human language—in its modern form—remains as elusive as ever. The Social Origins of Language provides a novel perspective on this question and charts a new path toward its resolution. In the lead essay, Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney draw on their decades-long pioneering research on monkeys and baboons in the wild to show how primates use vocalizations to modulate social dynamics. They argue that key elements of human language emerged from the need to decipher and encode complex social interactions. In other words, social communication is the biological foundation upon which evolution built more complex language. Seyfarth and Cheney’s argument serves as a jumping-off point for responses by John McWhorter, Ljiljana Progovac, Jennifer E. Arnold, Benjamin Wilson, Christopher I. Petkov and Peter Godfrey-Smith, each of whom draw on their respective expertise in linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. Michael Platt provides an introduction, Seyfarth and Cheney a concluding essay. Ultimately, The Social Origins of Language offers thought-provoking viewpoints on how human language evolved.

The Social Origins of Islam
The Social Origins of Islam

Author: Mohammed A. Bamyeh

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780816632640

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Explores the genesis of Islam for insight into the nature of ideological transformation.

Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind
Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind

Author: James V. Wertsch

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1988-10-15

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0674045092

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In a book of intellectual breadth, James Wertsch not only offers a synthesis and critique of all Vygotsky’s major ideas, but also presents a program for using Vygotskian theory as a guide to contemporary research in the social sciences and humanities. He draws extensively on all Vygotsky’s works, both in Russian and in English, as well as on his own studies in the Soviet Union with colleagues and students of Vygotsky. Vygotsky’s writings are an enormously rich source of ideas for those who seek an account of the mind as it relates to the social and physical world. Wertsch explores three central themes that run through Vygotsky’s work: his insistence on using genetic, or developmental, analysis; his claim that higher mental functioning in the individual has social origins; and his beliefs about the role of tools and signs in human social and psychological activity Wertsch demonstrates how the notion of semiotic mediation is essential to understanding Vygotsky’s unique contribution to the study of human consciousness. In the last four chapters Wertsch extends Vygotsky’s claims in light of recent research in linguistics, semiotics, and literary theory. The focus on semiotic phenomena, especially human language, enables him to integrate findings from the wide variety of disciplines with which Vygotsky was concerned Wertsch shows how Vygotsky’s approach provides a principled way to link the various strands of human science that seem more isolated than ever today.

Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought
Iconic Ideas in the History of Social Thought

Author: Wsevolod W. Isajiw

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1460281527

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The book distinguishes a number of types of social thought and traces their history from "tribal" times until present day. It shows that human beings thought systematically about their societies very early in their development, even if only informally, as they did not write treatises about them. In many ways, they formed a basis for all social thought that followed. The book discusses the social thought of ancient civilizations and talks about how the rationalism of Greek and Roman times and the religiosity of early and later Christianity influenced its development. The book then explains the influence of the Reformation, the change of the intellectual climate and the emergence of new approaches to the discussion about the nature of society. It talks about the theorists who argued that societies were created by social contract among people and some, like the colorful Robert Owen, advised that we should learn by doing. He tried to establish two colonies in which people would work and live together and share the products of their work among all in the colony. This was a benign socialist idea. It did not work. But soon the aggressive socialism of Karl Marx and his followers emerged. A strong trend emerged in the meantime for the scientific study of society, employing all the methods of the natural sciences. Sociology as a professional discipline thus developed. An issue emerged whether society is just a congregation of individuals or has a reality of its own. Differences among scholars emerged with American sociologists favoring individualistic sociology and Europeans favoring the reality of society approach. But the contest was crowned by Max Weber, whom some consider to be the greatest sociologist who ever lived, and his "analytical" and "verstehende" sociology. The field of sociology has spread out widely into various specializations. The book also studies popular social thought. It briefly describes Islamic social thought, looks at popular thought in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, and current American popular thought. It ends by discussing the future of social thought.