Social Cognition in the Mirrors of «Cognitive Revolutions»

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Abstract

The article discusses the problem of the social determination of cognition from the point of view of «cognitive revolutions» (R. Harré) in dialogue between psychology, social theory and history, neurobiology and aesthetics. The research inquiry is the cultural-historical analysis of the social representations of the everyday life. The «aesthetic paradigm» (T.D. Martsinkovskaya) uses the art-based methods to study the cultural forms of social cognition. Theoretical discussions are illustrated by the social psychological, clinical and contemporary art research of the mass consciousness of the Russian society at the beginning of the 21st century. The article presents the experience of the genre analysis of the tragedy of culture (G. Simmel), personal drama (L.S. Vygotsky) and comedy of social life (A.P. Chekhov). The final result is a new aesthetic concept of social cognition.

General Information

Keywords: social cognition, cognitive revolutions, cultural-historical analysis, aesthetic paradigm

Journal rubric: Theoretical Research

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/sps.2017080405

Funding. The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities, project 17-06-00980 «Historical and political factors of transformation of collective memory and identity in Russian society».

For citation: Khoroshilov D.A. Social Cognition in the Mirrors of «Cognitive Revolutions». Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2017. Vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 55–71. DOI: 10.17759/sps.2017080405. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Dmitry A. Khoroshilov, PhD in Psychology, Senior Research Associate, Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4688-1934, e-mail: d.khoroshilov@gmail.com

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