Cognitive cultural sociology has exhibited a preference for the neuro-scientific wing of cognitive science that generally sees cognition as a process occurring in individual minds. This preference has contributed to the individualistic cast of cognitive cultural sociology. Other theoretical frameworks can help cognitive cultural sociology out of this pickle. The paper identifies the distributed cognition approach as a valuable theoretical framework capable of integrating many of the individual/neurological insights of cognitive cultural sociology with the more macro perspectives adopted by most cultural sociologists. The article describes the distributed cognition approach, emphasizing its affinity for some of the theoretical and analytical models already in use by a wide range of cultural sociologists. Features that it offers include a de-emphasis on the inside/outside boundary of the individual person as marking the limit of cognition, attention to heterogeneous networks of information and meaning propagation, and a strong role for culture not just in providing content for cognition but in actually shaping the distributed cognition process. The concept of distributed cognition has the potential to enhance, but not replace, the concept of culture by suggesting fruitful new avenues for exploring the pathways of information and meaning propagation that constitute cognition in its distributed form.

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文化社会学遇到认知狂野：分析文化与认知交叉的分布式认知框架的优势

认知文化社会学对认知科学的神经科学分支表现出偏爱，该分支通常将认知视为发生在个人思维中的过程。这种偏好促成了认知文化社会学的个人主义倾向。其他理论框架可以帮助认知文化社会学摆脱困境。该论文将分布式认知方法确定为一种有价值的理论框架，能够将认知文化社会学的许多个人/神经学见解与大多数文化社会学家采用的更宏观的观点相结合。这篇文章描述了分布式认知方法，强调了它与广泛的文化社会学家已经在使用的一些理论和分析模型的亲和力。它提供的功能包括不再强调个人内部/外部边界作为认知极限的标志，关注信息和意义传播的异质网络，以及文化的强大作用，不仅为认知提供内容，而且在实际塑造分布式认知过程中。分布式认知的概念有可能通过提出富有成效的新途径来探索构成分布式认知的信息和意义传播途径，从而增强但不能取代文化概念。文化的重要作用不仅在于为认知提供内容，还在于实际塑造分布式认知过程。分布式认知的概念有可能通过提出富有成效的新途径来探索构成分布式认知的信息和意义传播途径，从而增强但不能取代文化概念。文化的重要作用不仅在于为认知提供内容，还在于实际塑造分布式认知过程。分布式认知的概念有可能通过提出富有成效的新途径来探索构成分布式认知的信息和意义传播途径，从而增强但不能取代文化概念。