This article examines the influx of neurocognitive concepts in cultural sociology and this development’s consequences for representationalism. In the first part, I examine representationalism in two research programs that have shaped cultural sociology from the cultural turn to the present: Jeffrey Alexander’s “strong program” and Ann Swidler’s “tool kit” theory. I also briefly discuss the mixed and contradictory findings presented in one of sociology’s most-cited cognitive works, Paul DiMaggio’s (Annu Rev Sociol 23:263–87, 1997) programmatic statement on cognitive psychology’s potential contributions to sociology, which catalyzed the discipline’s cognitive turn. In part two, I demonstrate how in working with and against these three pillars in cultural sociology, figures such as Omar Lizardo, Steven Vaisey, and John Levi Martin have drawn on the cognitive neurosciences to re-conceptualize culture in ways that may have profound consequences for representationalism as it is practiced in the field. I conclude by arguing that representationalism is present but suppressed in cognitive cultural theory and its empirical investigations; that representationalism finds support in the neurocognitive sources that cognitive culturalists cite; and by asserting that future general theories of action will be predicated on a more interactive relationship between automatic and deliberative cognitive domains than the cognitive culturalists currently allow.

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表象主义和认知文化主义：骑象骑大象一路向下

本文考察了文化社会学中神经认知概念的涌入以及这种发展对表征主义的影响。在第一部分，我考察了从文化转向到现在塑造了文化社会学的两个研究项目中的表征主义：杰弗里亚历山大的“强项目”和安斯威德勒的“工具箱”理论。我还简要讨论了社会学被引用次数最多的认知著作之一 Paul DiMaggio (Annu Rev Sociol 23: 263-87, 1997) 关于认知心理学对社会学的潜在贡献的纲领性陈述中提出的混合和矛盾的发现，这促进了学科的认知转向. 在第二部分，我展示了如何与文化社会学中的这三个支柱合作和反对，比如奥马尔·利扎多、史蒂文·维西、约翰·列维·马丁 (John Levi Martin) 借鉴了认知神经科学，以可能对在该领域实践的表征主义产生深远影响的方式重新概念化文化。最后，我认为表征主义在认知文化理论及其实证研究中存在但被压制；这种表征主义在认知文化主义者引用的神经认知来源中得到了支持；并断言未来的一般行动理论将建立在自动认知领域和商议认知领域之间的互动关系上，这比认知文化主义者目前所允许的要多。最后，我认为表征主义在认知文化理论及其实证研究中存在但被压制；这种表征主义在认知文化主义者引用的神经认知来源中得到了支持；并断言未来的一般行动理论将建立在自动认知领域和商议认知领域之间的互动关系上，这比认知文化主义者目前所允许的要多。最后，我认为表征主义在认知文化理论及其实证研究中存在但被压制；这种表征主义在认知文化主义者引用的神经认知来源中得到了支持；并断言未来的一般行动理论将建立在自动认知领域和商议认知领域之间的互动关系上，这比认知文化主义者目前所允许的要多。