Publication

2015-04-10 - Oxford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100199366616
  • ISBN-139780199366613
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014022251
  • OCLC Control Number893099169
  • Better World Books9780199366613
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCBF778.Z47 2015
  • LCCBF778 .Z47 2015

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of IrrelevancePaperbackOxford University Press2015-04-10

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