Since the 1990s,embodied cognition has become the research trend of cognitive science.Due to excessive attention to embodiment and the physical environment,embodied cognition does not pay more attention to the social ...Since the 1990s,embodied cognition has become the research trend of cognitive science.Due to excessive attention to embodiment and the physical environment,embodied cognition does not pay more attention to the social characteristics of cognition,especially the role of others and symbolic activities,making cognitive science research unable to get rid of solipsism.So,it is difficult for the embodied cognition to explain the uniformity and multiplicity of cognition,and the problem of“other”mind.To solve these problems,the paper expounds the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition and the necessity of social turning in embodied cognition.Through analyzing the thoughts of George H.Mead about cognition and the influence of his symbolic interactionism on embodied cognition,as well as discussing Mark Johnson’s view on social interactional aspects of embodied cognition,we emphasize that the social and symbolic interactions are indispensable factors of embodied cognition.The paper argues that higher-order cognition comes out of symbolic interactions;cognition generates from posture dialogue interaction and manifests itself through attitude;intersubjectivity is closely associated with symbolic interactionism.Therefore,studying the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition helps overcome the solipsism or individualism of embodied cognition,and accordingly contributes to the social turning of embodied cognition.展开更多
The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously ...The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.展开更多
This research concerns on ＂metropolis and metropolisation＂： what is new with the symbols of city local life and the emblems of global competition？ From New York, Rome, Barcelone, Paris and Bordeaux, the same quest...This research concerns on ＂metropolis and metropolisation＂： what is new with the symbols of city local life and the emblems of global competition？ From New York, Rome, Barcelone, Paris and Bordeaux, the same question demands specific answers： can we live and appreciate urban and metropolitan symbols and emblems together or on their own？ That is the question for towns and the future of their citizens. Confrontation of urban sites and observed places with the plural points of view of their establishment, their designers and urban skills, and their inhabitants and citizens. The combination of these several points of view always make a richer discovery than their disciplinary partition and monopoly.展开更多
As Chinese cities rapidly transformed themselves into consumerist societies,the relationship between consumers and consumption space under stratification has become a new research area in the field of urban social geo...As Chinese cities rapidly transformed themselves into consumerist societies,the relationship between consumers and consumption space under stratification has become a new research area in the field of urban social geography.Based on a consumer behavior analysis,this study explores the relationship between consumption space and the social strata of consumers in typical shopping malls in Guangzhou where the first shopping mall in China was built.The result shows that shopping malls have performed significant constructive functions of organizing consumers from different social classes into different consumption space.For middle-and upper-class consumers,the function of shopping malls centers on utilitarian consumption,identity recognition,and identity construction;whereas for lower-class consumers,its function revolves around pleasure and enjoyment.The symbolism of consumption space is the underlying reason for shopping malls to have their social constructive function.The findings of this research suggest that:1) a shopping mall is a productive consumption space and a geographical space with subjectivity;2) the micro-location of a shopping mall has social construction function;and 3) symbolic consumption is the core of social construction.展开更多
Antonio Buero Vallejo(1916-2000)was an outstanding Spanish playwright.He reflects on the society,their fears,problems and post war crisis.He well deserves the appellative he was given“the consciousness of Spain”.In ...Antonio Buero Vallejo(1916-2000)was an outstanding Spanish playwright.He reflects on the society,their fears,problems and post war crisis.He well deserves the appellative he was given“the consciousness of Spain”.In this article I analyze the symbols and opposites in three of his plays,two of them of social realism:Stories of a Stair,and The Skylight,and a historical one:The Little Girls(Las Meninas).He creates dramas but always with some touches of good humor.Reading Buero Vallejo is understanding the idiosyncrasy of Spain and its people.展开更多
As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional p...As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional period:the American War of Independence,the French Revolution,the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution which brought about significant and essential impact on social and historical progress in England.Coming from the social injustices and the full of the dark-side of the industrial England,Blake caught the pulse of his times through his sharp and deep insight,and employed his symbolism,satiric and allegorical device to condemn and criticize the oppression and exploitation derived from the class inequality,privilege and tyr anny.Through his painting and poetry,Blake lashed the dark and indifferent church and authority,and exposed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the religion and humanity,and also called on the oppressed to shatter mental and physical restriction "The mind-forged manacles" come from the ruling class.In this paper,I want to introduce and interpret the social reality as reflected in the poetry of William Blake through concrete analyzing some of Blake's poems in terms of main ideas,historical settings,rhe torical device and language character which underlay and concealed in his poetry deeply.展开更多
文摘Since the 1990s,embodied cognition has become the research trend of cognitive science.Due to excessive attention to embodiment and the physical environment,embodied cognition does not pay more attention to the social characteristics of cognition,especially the role of others and symbolic activities,making cognitive science research unable to get rid of solipsism.So,it is difficult for the embodied cognition to explain the uniformity and multiplicity of cognition,and the problem of“other”mind.To solve these problems,the paper expounds the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition and the necessity of social turning in embodied cognition.Through analyzing the thoughts of George H.Mead about cognition and the influence of his symbolic interactionism on embodied cognition,as well as discussing Mark Johnson’s view on social interactional aspects of embodied cognition,we emphasize that the social and symbolic interactions are indispensable factors of embodied cognition.The paper argues that higher-order cognition comes out of symbolic interactions;cognition generates from posture dialogue interaction and manifests itself through attitude;intersubjectivity is closely associated with symbolic interactionism.Therefore,studying the relations between symbolic interactionism and embodied cognition helps overcome the solipsism or individualism of embodied cognition,and accordingly contributes to the social turning of embodied cognition.
文摘The human body, such as hair, serves as a prism through which historical and cultural contexts are effectively refracted. Despite its historical and cultural significance, the role of hair, however, remains curiously a marginalized subject among the renewed interests on the body in the academic fields. In this paper, the author attempts to politicize the queue from 3 perspectives： maintaining a certain prescribed hairstyle is a top-down gesture to construct national conformity; the boundary between Manchu and Han is invoked and reinvented through the battles surrounding the queue politic in late Qing and early Republic; the widespread debate between keeping the queue and cutting the queue at the turn of the 20th century epitomizes the haunting rhetoric of traditionalism and modernism pursuit of modernity in China.
文摘This research concerns on ＂metropolis and metropolisation＂： what is new with the symbols of city local life and the emblems of global competition？ From New York, Rome, Barcelone, Paris and Bordeaux, the same question demands specific answers： can we live and appreciate urban and metropolitan symbols and emblems together or on their own？ That is the question for towns and the future of their citizens. Confrontation of urban sites and observed places with the plural points of view of their establishment, their designers and urban skills, and their inhabitants and citizens. The combination of these several points of view always make a richer discovery than their disciplinary partition and monopoly.
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40971088,40401018)Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation of Ministry of Education of China(No.09YJAZH105)Graduate Education Reform Project of SUN Yat-Sen University(No.ZGEI026)
文摘As Chinese cities rapidly transformed themselves into consumerist societies,the relationship between consumers and consumption space under stratification has become a new research area in the field of urban social geography.Based on a consumer behavior analysis,this study explores the relationship between consumption space and the social strata of consumers in typical shopping malls in Guangzhou where the first shopping mall in China was built.The result shows that shopping malls have performed significant constructive functions of organizing consumers from different social classes into different consumption space.For middle-and upper-class consumers,the function of shopping malls centers on utilitarian consumption,identity recognition,and identity construction;whereas for lower-class consumers,its function revolves around pleasure and enjoyment.The symbolism of consumption space is the underlying reason for shopping malls to have their social constructive function.The findings of this research suggest that:1) a shopping mall is a productive consumption space and a geographical space with subjectivity;2) the micro-location of a shopping mall has social construction function;and 3) symbolic consumption is the core of social construction.
文摘Antonio Buero Vallejo(1916-2000)was an outstanding Spanish playwright.He reflects on the society,their fears,problems and post war crisis.He well deserves the appellative he was given“the consciousness of Spain”.In this article I analyze the symbols and opposites in three of his plays,two of them of social realism:Stories of a Stair,and The Skylight,and a historical one:The Little Girls(Las Meninas).He creates dramas but always with some touches of good humor.Reading Buero Vallejo is understanding the idiosyncrasy of Spain and its people.
文摘As one of the most outstanding representatives of the Pre-Romanticism poet in 18th century English literature,Wil liam Blake lived through and witnessed an era of great political and social upheaval and transitional period:the American War of Independence,the French Revolution,the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution which brought about significant and essential impact on social and historical progress in England.Coming from the social injustices and the full of the dark-side of the industrial England,Blake caught the pulse of his times through his sharp and deep insight,and employed his symbolism,satiric and allegorical device to condemn and criticize the oppression and exploitation derived from the class inequality,privilege and tyr anny.Through his painting and poetry,Blake lashed the dark and indifferent church and authority,and exposed the hypocrisy and falsehood of the religion and humanity,and also called on the oppressed to shatter mental and physical restriction "The mind-forged manacles" come from the ruling class.In this paper,I want to introduce and interpret the social reality as reflected in the poetry of William Blake through concrete analyzing some of Blake's poems in terms of main ideas,historical settings,rhe torical device and language character which underlay and concealed in his poetry deeply.
