Hidden in Plain Sight
Subtitle: The Social Structure of Irrelevance
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 10, 2015
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780199366613
Description: While examining its neuro-cognitive hardware, psychology usually ignores the socio-cognitive software underlying human attention. Yet although it is nature that equips us with our sense organs, it is nevertheless society that shapes the way we actually use them. The book explores the social underpinnings of attention, the way in which we focus our attention (and thereby notice and ignore things) not just as individuals and as humans but also as social beings, members of particular communities with specific traditions and conventions of attending to certain parts of reality while ignoring others.
Notes: Source title: Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance