Welcome to the Real World: Escaping the Sociology of Culture and Cognition

Vaisey, Stephen

doi:10.1111/socf.12770

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“…I believe that this paper's lessons for theory building and measurement in the context of organizational ecology have broad implications for other work in sociology that seeks to build connections to cognition. This includes such diverse fields such as cultural sociology (DiMaggio, 1997;Mohr, Bail, Frye, Lena, Lizardo, McDonnell, Mische, Tavory, and Wherry, 2020;Vaisey, 2021;Cerulo, Leschziner, and Sheperd, 2021), economic sociology (Vila-Henninger, 2021), political sociology (Bonikowski, Luo, and Sthuler, 2022), and stratification (Kozlowski et al, 2019). Pursuing the new approach might not only improve theory and measurement in these fields, but it might also reveal deeper connections among them.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking organizational ecology in light of developments in cognitive science and natural language processing

Hannan¹

2022

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Theory and research on the ecology of organizations has taken a cognitive turn over the past fifteen years. The most recent development in organizational ecology builds explicit bridges to cognitive science. This reconstructs the core of the original theories in light of the new knowledge. It builds on a probabilistic view of concepts and categories. It turns out that the cognitive-based reformulation effort reveals unexpected connections to language models and natural-language processing. In particular, the leading probabilistic classifier BERT provides new and powerful ways to measure core concepts.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Rethinking organizational ecology in light of developments in cognitive science and natural language processing

Hannan¹

2022

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“…Cohen 1978); (ii) sociology and cultural sociology, especially that interested in charting the compatibilities among values (e.g. Schwartz et al 2012, Vaisey 2021; and (iii) approaches to anthropology (e.g. Sahlins 1985Sahlins , 1983, especially cultural ecology (Steward 1955), but also that of the more recent 'neo-Boasians' (Bashkow 2004, Rodseth 2018.…”

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Cultural Systems

Jansson¹,

Buskell²,

Enquist³

2022

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Many cultural phenomena cannot be understood by studying traits in isolation. Instead, they are embedded in webs of relations, layered with rich social meaning, and sequentially acquired and evaluated, \emph{filtered}, in light of previously acquired traits. Incorporating multiple traits and their relations is needed to understand the organization, dynamics, and emergent products of cultural evolution. We argue that a systems approach offers the potential for: (i) a more thorough understanding of the source and character of emergent phenomena, crucial for understanding the origin and historical development of culture; (ii) an increased scope of cultural evolution, whereby faithful transmission, self-organization and filtering of culture can be accounted for by systems dynamics without the need for strong assumptions about innate machinery; and (iii) a more robust theoretical connection between cultural evolution and processes of development as they are studied in developmental psychology and related fields.

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“…We are grateful to Karen Cerulo for inviting us to respond to Stephen Vaisey's always provocative and important work on culture and cognition, specifically, his critique of our recent article (Vaisey 2021). The subset of sociologists interested in culture and cognition, Vaisey says, have made their own world.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…What Should We Take From Other Disciplines, and How? Vaisey (2021) seems to have thought that, in our recent critique of the concept of values (Martin and Lembo 2020; henceforward ML2020), we were telling sociologists to "look inward to our own disciplinary traditions" rather than outward for our inspiration. If we misled any readers in this direction, we want to correct this impression with all possible haste.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%