SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Collective Consciousness, Proxemics
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Congitive sociology - cerulo: cognition/thinking, classification, attention, lack of attention, focusing. > particular qualities that we have shakespeare. > the kinds of barriers that we have in our brains. > brains are built to minimize certain kinds of things. Do comparative work to observe the patterns (shared among people) **similar to the sacred and profane theory by durkheim** Social lives to perform in certain ways - socialization. Cognitive socialization: more dimension to thinking, somethings are right or wrong, some are appropriate and some are not. Learn some behaviours at home usually occur informally. Through the things that are formal then you learn the things you should focus on. We should pay attention to the things that we do not focus on. Cognitive rules - rules for focusing and ignoring things - may or must ignore: we learn a lot by paying attention to this things, physiology of senses but a lot of it has to do with rules.
