Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. CHAPTER ONE. Concepts in Sociological Analysis 1
6. PART ONE. Concepts and Spaces
7. CHAPTER TWO. Preliminaries 17
8. CHAPTER THREE. Semantic Space 37
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Concepts as Probability Densities in Semantic Space 47
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Conceptual Spaces: Domains and Cohorts 61
11. CHAPTER SIX. Expanding Spaces to Compare Concepts 77
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Informativeness and Distinctiveness 83
13. PART TWO. Applying Concepts
14. CHAPTER EIGHT. Categories and Categorization 97
15. CHAPTER NINE. Free Categorization 121
16. CHAPTER TEN. Concepts, Perception, and Inference 141
17. PART THREE. Bridges to Sociological Application
18. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Conceptual Ambiguity and Contrast 163
19. CHAPTER TWELVE. Valuation 187
20. PART FOUR. Concepts in Social Interaction
21. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The Group Level: Conceptual and Extensional Agreement 217
22. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Social Inference and Taken-for-Grantedness 231
23. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Broadening the Scope of Application 253
24. PART FIVE. Appendixes
25. APPENDIX A. Glossary of Technical Terms 267
26. APPENDIX B. Some Elemental First-Order Logic 269
27. APPENDIX C. Proofs 275
28. Notes 283
29. Bibliography 293
30. Index 309