TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,Mark
TI  - Cognitive dimensions of social science
SN  - 0195139046
AV  - H61. T97 2001
U1  - 300 
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - Oxford, UK, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Cognition
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-177) and index
N2  - "What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions: social science is headed toward convergence with cognitive science." "About fifty thousand years ago, human beings made a spectacular advance: they became cognitively modern. This development made possible the invention of the vast range of knowledge, practices, and institutions that social scientists try to explain. For Turner, the anchor of all social science - anthropology, political science, sociology, economics - must be the study of the cognitively modern human mind." "In this book, Turner moves the study of the extraordinary powers of the human mind to the center of social scientific research and analysis. Together, cognitive science and social science will give us a new and better approach to the study of what human beings are, what human beings do, what kind of mind they have, and how that mind developed over the history of the species."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -