Of looking glasses, mirror neurons, culture, and meaning
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In: Perspectives on Science, Vol. 22, No. 4, 20.12.2014, p. 616-649.
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T1 - Of looking glasses, mirror neurons, culture, and meaning
AU - Waters, Tony
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2014 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2014/12/20
Y1 - 2014/12/20
N2 - “Mirror neurons” describe complementary affective neural activity that occurs in the brains of two different primates because they are both doing or observing the same action. Empathy, sympathy, and other emotional responses involving “taking the role of the other” are inferred to be the consequence of these emotional capacities. Mirror neurons were first described in the 1980s using the results of brain imaging studies. But, a similar conclusion about “mirroring capacity” is also reflected in over one hundred years of observational research in sociology. Early sociologists described how the social order is maintained and reproduced using the concept of the “looking glass self” which they view as an entity that exists between the biological being and a social being.
AB - “Mirror neurons” describe complementary affective neural activity that occurs in the brains of two different primates because they are both doing or observing the same action. Empathy, sympathy, and other emotional responses involving “taking the role of the other” are inferred to be the consequence of these emotional capacities. Mirror neurons were first described in the 1980s using the results of brain imaging studies. But, a similar conclusion about “mirroring capacity” is also reflected in over one hundred years of observational research in sociology. Early sociologists described how the social order is maintained and reproduced using the concept of the “looking glass self” which they view as an entity that exists between the biological being and a social being.
KW - Sociology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84911049616&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1162/POSC_a_00152
DO - 10.1162/POSC_a_00152
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:84911049616
VL - 22
SP - 616
EP - 649
JO - Perspectives on Science
JF - Perspectives on Science
SN - 1063-6145
IS - 4
ER -