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A Cognitive-Structural Sociological Account of the Emergence of Novel Worlds

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Sociological Theory

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Abstract

Sociological Theory, Volume 44, Issue 2, Page 153-179, June 2026.
This article proposes a cognitive structural account of the emergence of social worlds that organize the expectations of producers and audiences. The proposed model considers the emergence process in three stages: (1) the arrival of distinctive clusters ...