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AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
卷 86, 期 4, 页码 728-758出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/00031224211024525
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cultural schemas; cognitive sociology; automatic cognition; connectionism; Marr's levels
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The article presents a theoretical model of cultural schemas, outlining their main theoretical properties and providing testing methods to determine their applicability. By discussing a multilevel framework, the distinctions between cultural schemas and other cultural or cognitive elements are identified, and improvements to methods of measuring cultural schemas are recommended.
Cultural schemas are a central cognitive mechanism through which culture affects action. In this article, we develop a theoretical model of cultural schemas that is better able to support empirical work, including inferential, sensitizing, and operational uses. We propose a multilevel framework centered on a high-level definition of cultural schemas that is sufficiently broad to capture its major sociological applications but still sufficiently narrow to identify a set of cognitive phenomena with key functional properties in common: cultural schemas are socially shared representations deployable in automatic cognition. We use this conception to elaborate the main theoretical properties of cultural schemas, and to provide clear criteria that distinguish them from other cultural or cognitive elements. We then propose a series of concrete tests empirical scholarship can use to determine if these properties apply. We also demonstrate how this approach can identify potentially faulty theoretical inferences present in existing work. Moving to a lower level of analysis, we elaborate how cultural schemas can be algorithmically conceptualized in terms of their building blocks. This leads us to recommend improvements to methods for measuring cultural schemas. We conclude by outlining questions for a broader research program.
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