Hidden in Plain Sight

The Social Structure of Irrelevance

Autor: Eviatar Zerubavel

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Editura: Oxford University Press Inc

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Many of us have had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys or glasses which we have been...

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Autor

Eviatar Zerubavel

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

214

EAN

9780199366606

ISBN

0199366608

Enbook ID

09231653

Editura

Oxford University Press Inc

Greutate

428

Dimensiuni

148 x 221 x 19

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Many of us have had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys or glasses which we have been looking for in vain were right in front of us the whole time. Looking for something does not guarantee that you will notice it, as the capacity of our sense organs far exceeds our mental capabilities. Whether we know it or not, we organize our perception systematically and that requires focusing our attention: some things move to the foreground, other elements recede into the background. While neuroscience and psychology can tell us a lot about our cognitive hardware, the cognitive software we use often goes unnoticed. In this book, Eviatar Zerubavel argues that we notice and ignore things not just as human beings, but as social beings. What we attend and do not attend to is a function of the fact that we are lawyers rather than detectives, Koreans rather than Americans, theologians rather than economists, vegans rather than omnivores. It is our environment and our social lives that often determine how we actually use our vision and hearing to access the world. Drawing on fascinating examples from the art world, optical illusions, and all walks of life, Zerubavel investigates how what we notice or ignore varies across cultures and throughout history. A subtle yet powerful examination of one of the central features of our conscious life, this book offers a way to think about all that might otherwise remain hidden in plain sight.

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