Cultural sociology must catch up in taking seriously recent initiatives in the sociology of culture and cognition, represented by the works of Omar Lizardo, John Levi Martin, Stephen Vaisey, and others. However, aiming at progress in cultural analysis, these theories are partly driven by an epistemic logic alien to cultural theorizing, making the very concept of culture redundant. To identify this anti-cultural strain within the ongoing cognitive turn in sociology, I propose an ideal-typical model—‘the informational theory of communication,’ which reduces culture to information. Although many cognitive scientists and sociologists of culture and cognition are aware of the limitations and counter-productivity of this model, and it might not exist in a pure form, I argue that, first, it is still clearly traceable in many of their arguments, and, second, that it can be seen as a cultural logic underlying a substantial part of their arguments. I posit that replacing this logic of explanation with the Durkheimian model of sui generis synthesis, the concept of emergence, and the idea of ‘boundary conditions’ not only allows us to integrate the insights of cognitive science into sociology, but also opens a way for sociology to contribute to the cognitive sciences.

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文化与认知：涂尔干的自成一类原则与基于认知的文化模型

文化社会学必须认真对待最近以奥马尔·利扎多、约翰·列维·马丁、斯蒂芬·维西等人的作品为代表的文化和认知社会学的倡议。然而，为了文化分析的进步，这些理论部分是由与文化理论化不同的认知逻辑驱动的，使得文化的概念变得多余。为了在社会学正在进行的认知转向中识别这种反文化压力，我提出了一个理想的典型模型——“传播的信息理论”，它将文化简化为信息。尽管许多认知科学家和文化和认知社会学家都意识到这种模型的局限性和适得其反的效果，并且它可能不会以纯粹的形式存在，但我认为，首先，在他们的许多论点中仍然可以清楚地追溯，和，其次，它可以被视为他们论点的重要组成部分背后的文化逻辑。我假设，用涂尔干的自成一体综合模型、涌现的概念和“边界条件”的思想代替这种解释逻辑，不仅可以让我们将认知科学的见解融入社会学，还可以打开一个社会学为认知科学做出贡献的方式。