Twentieth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Science

Abstract

Today’s interdisciplinary context is rich in approaches to social cognition. Social cognition focuses on how individuals cognize reality, which is inherently seen as social, with cognition primarily understood as communication and interaction. Scientific perspectives on social cognition offer different frameworks, such as social cognitive, informational processing, constructivist, and phenomenological approaches. This proposal discusses these approaches and their conceptual emphasis. Then, we argue for the holistic emergence approach or the cognition system to theorize about social cognition. This approach emphasizes the importance of having an ideal image of cognition when considering it. First, we acknowledge the need to consider ontological, epistemological and methodological foundations to understand cognition. Implementing these philosophical disciplines is crucial for developing a concept or theory of cognition having fundamental bases that describe the creation of abstract designs of processes, actions, interactions, agents, objects, and systems of knowledge that mediate cognition occurrences in various contexts and positions. Second, through this holistic approach, we propose to conceive, speculate, comprehend, and explore social cognition and its elements. Third, we also refer to theoretical-methodological modelling that provides a new perspective on social cognition phenomena. The model is not purely abstract; it can also take on a concrete form, making it a hypothetical perfect or optimal model. We emphasize the need to continually return to the idea of cognition, as thinking about it is a fundamental aspect of cognition itself. We hold this model as a mental backing that helps us think about any cognition-related matter.