Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 410 Barrows Hall, Berkeley, California 94720-1980; e-mail: swidler@berkeley.edu.
Comment on Stephen Vaisey’s “Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle: Three Ways of Thinking About Culture in Action”
Article first published online: 21 JUL 2008
DOI: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2008.00080.x
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Swidler, A. (2008), Comment on Stephen Vaisey’s “Socrates, Skinner, and Aristotle: Three Ways of Thinking About Culture in Action”. Sociological Forum, 23: 614–618. doi: 10.1111/j.1573-7861.2008.00080.x
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Keywords:
- action;
- cognition;
- culture;
- situation;
- values
In this essay, I respond to Vaisey’s arguments on culture and cognition, noting our points of agreement and disagreement and posing new ideas for future research.

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