Hidden in plain sight : the social structure of irrelevance /
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 underpin...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190225780 0190225785 0199366608 9780199366606 0199366616 9780199366613 0199366632 9780199366637 0199366624 9780199366620 |