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The Social Construction of Perceptual Categories

The Social Construction of Perceptual Categories AbstractIn this article I shall argue that the categories a subject employs to codify her perceptions are emergent elements of the social niche her community inhabits. Hence, I defend the claim that categories are primarily elements of the social ontology a certain subject experiences. I then claim that public representations (e.g. icons) shared in a social niche play a crucial regulative role for the members of that community: in fact, they offer a rule (a canon) to conceive a certain type or a certain category, e.g. ‘movement’, ‘time’ or ‘space’. In this sense, categories function as normative elements. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Ontology de Gruyter

The Social Construction of Perceptual Categories

Journal of Social Ontology , Volume 7 (2): 28 – Jan 5, 2022

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Publisher
de Gruyter
Copyright
© 2021 Francesco Consiglio, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
eISSN
2196-9663
DOI
10.1515/jso-2020-0058
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Abstract

AbstractIn this article I shall argue that the categories a subject employs to codify her perceptions are emergent elements of the social niche her community inhabits. Hence, I defend the claim that categories are primarily elements of the social ontology a certain subject experiences. I then claim that public representations (e.g. icons) shared in a social niche play a crucial regulative role for the members of that community: in fact, they offer a rule (a canon) to conceive a certain type or a certain category, e.g. ‘movement’, ‘time’ or ‘space’. In this sense, categories function as normative elements.

Journal

Journal of Social Ontologyde Gruyter

Published: Jan 5, 2022

Keywords: categories; mindshaping; canons; icons; social niche

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