In this fascinating interdisciplinary book, Shawn W. Rosenberg challenges two basic assumptions that orient much contemporary social scientific thinking. Offering theory and empirical research, he rejects the classic liberal view that people share a basic “common sense” or rationality. At the same time, he questions the view of contemporary social theory that meaning is simply an intersubjective or cultural product.
Through in-depth interviews, Rosenberg explores the underlying logic of cognition. Rather than discovering a common sense or rationality, he finds that people reason in fundamentally different ways, and these differences affect the kind of understandings they craft and the evaluations they make. As a result, people actively reconstruct culturally prevalent meanings and norms in their own subjective terms. Rosenberg provides a comprehensive description of three types of socio-political reasoning and the full text of three exemplary interviews.
Rosenberg’s findings help explain such puzzling social phenomena as why people do not learn even when it is to their advantage to do so, or why they fail to adapt to changed social conditions even when they have clear information and motivation. The author argues that this kind of failure is commonplace and discusses examples ranging from the crisis of modernity to the classroom performance of university students. Building on the ideas of Jean Piaget, George Herbert Mead, and Jurgen Habermas, Rosenberg offers a new orienting vision, structural pragmatics, to account for these social phenomena and his own research in cognition. In the concluding chapter, he discusses the implications of his work for the study of social cognition, political behavior, and democratic theory.

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Rosenberg, Shawn W.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Brandywine River Museum

Mariners' Museum, The

United States, United States of America

New Haven, CT, 2002

1, 2002

2017

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Contents 7
Acknowledgments 13
Chapter One. Postmodernity, Not Learning, and the Not So Common Sense 15
Chapter Two. A Structural Pragmatic Social Psychology 47
Chapter Three. Linear Thinking 93
Chapter Four. Systematic Thinking 148
Chapter Five. Sequential Thinking 231
Chapter Six. Epistemology, Methodology, and Research Design 266
Chapter Seven. Results of the Empirical Research: Julie, Barbara, and Bill 308
Chapter Eight. Overview and Concluding Remarks 384
Notes 411
Bibliography 425
Index 435

Offering theory and empirical research, Rosenberg rejects the liberal view that people share a basic 'common sense' or rationality. He also denies that meaning is simply an intersubjective or cultural product

2023-05-30