Kniha Hidden in Plain Sight Eviatar Zerubavel

Hidden in Plain Sight

The Social Structure of Irrelevance

Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Dostupnosť: U vydavateľa na objednávku
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Many of us have had the experience of suddenly realizing that the keys or glasses which we have been...

Informácie o knihe

Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2015
Stránok
216
EAN
9780199366613
ISBN
0199366616
Enbook ID
09231654
Hmotnosť
242
Rozmery
139 x 211 x 16

Kompletný popis

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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