{"product_id":"concepts-and-categories-9780231192729","title":"Concepts and Categories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA team of sociologists presents a groundbreaking model of concepts and categorization that can guide sociological and cultural analysis of a wide variety of social situations. Using this model, important yet commonplace phenomena such as routine buying decisions can be quantified in terms of the cognitive distance between concepts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSocial classification—the establishment of categories and the sorting of entities into those categories—is the critical juncture at which cognition and social organization intersect. As such, it is a central topic that cuts across many fields of sociology and other social sciences. This volume integrates work from the most productive and promising program of theory and research on social classification into a coherent statement that will inform sociological thinking for years to come. -- Paul DiMaggio, New York University\u003cbr\u003eThis formal foundation of categorization processes represents a massive step forward in our theoretical understanding of categories, their evolution, and their influence on decisions. The authors do an excellent job of motivating these cognitive foundations in terms of their relevance to sociological questions of interest. -- Olav Sorenson, Frederick Frank ’54 and Mary C. Tanner Professor of Management, Yale School of Management\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConcepts and Categories\u003c\/i\u003e is at once foundational and generative—the kind of book in which you will fill the margins with new learnings and insights. I highly recommend it both to newcomers to the sociology of markets as well as to established scholars looking for their next novel idea. -- Damon Phillips, Lambert Family Professor of Social Enterprise, Columbia Business School\u003cbr\u003eHannan and collaborators have produced a masterful interdisciplinary intervention, the first to bridge research on the nature of concepts in cognitive psychology and sociological work on organizational and market categories. The book provides solid theoretical foundations tightly linked to formal measurement tools that should prove foundational to future advancements in the field. -- Omar Lizardo, LeRoy Neiman Term Chair Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eCrisply written and technically rich. . . . Recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eAn impeccable search for clearly defined concepts, an articulated theorizing connecting the concepts together logically\u003cbr\u003eand in natural language, and an exposure that distinguishes definitions, postulates, correlates, and propositions. * Administrative Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Concepts in Sociological Analysis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Concepts and Spaces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Preliminaries\u003cbr\u003e3. Semantic Space\u003cbr\u003e4. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space\u003cbr\u003e5. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts\u003cbr\u003e6. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts\u003cbr\u003e7. Informativeness and Distinctiveness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Applying Concepts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. Categories and Categorization\u003cbr\u003e9. Free Categorization\u003cbr\u003e10. Concepts, Perception, and Inference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Bridges to Sociological Application\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast\u003cbr\u003e12. Valuation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Concepts in Social Interaction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement\u003cbr\u003e14. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness\u003cbr\u003e15. Broadening the Scope of Application\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V. Appendixes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A: Glossary of Technical Terms\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: Some Elemental First-Order Logic\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C: Proofs\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400341889367,"sku":"9780231192729","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231192729.jpg?v=1730470438","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/concepts-and-categories-9780231192729","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}