Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where for many years he served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of many books.

One can perceive a cognitive turn in much of sociology over the past decade, but its progress has been more halting than in other fields, in part because we have had no natural framework for thinking about the role of cognition in social relations. Social Mindscapes provides such a framework. Eviatar Zerubavel has given us the field-defining primer we have needed, an invitation to cognitive sociology written with sufficient sophistication that senior scholars will find it engaging and persuasive, yet with such grace and clarity that students will also understand and learn from it.

• 1. The Sociology of the Mind 2. Social Optics 3. The Social Gates of Consciousness 4. The Social Division of the World 5. Social Meanings 6. Social Memories 7. Standard Time 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading Author Index Subject Index

Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where for many years he served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of many books.

One can perceive a cognitive turn in much of sociology over the past decade, but its progress has been more halting than in other fields, in part because we have had no natural framework for thinking about the role of cognition in social relations. Social Mindscapes provides such a framework. Eviatar Zerubavel has given us the field-defining primer we have needed, an invitation to cognitive sociology written with sufficient sophistication that senior scholars will find it engaging and persuasive, yet with such grace and clarity that students will also understand and learn from it.

• 1. The Sociology of the Mind 2. Social Optics 3. The Social Gates of Consciousness 4. The Social Division of the World 5. Social Meanings 6. Social Memories 7. Standard Time 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading Author Index Subject Index

Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, where for many years he served as the Director of the Graduate Program in Sociology. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the author of many books.

One can perceive a cognitive turn in much of sociology over the past decade, but its progress has been more halting than in other fields, in part because we have had no natural framework for thinking about the role of cognition in social relations. Social Mindscapes provides such a framework. Eviatar Zerubavel has given us the field-defining primer we have needed, an invitation to cognitive sociology written with sufficient sophistication that senior scholars will find it engaging and persuasive, yet with such grace and clarity that students will also understand and learn from it.

• 1. The Sociology of the Mind 2. Social Optics 3. The Social Gates of Consciousness 4. The Social Division of the World 5. Social Meanings 6. Social Memories 7. Standard Time 8. Conclusion Notes Further Reading Author Index Subject Index