Selbstsichten, "implizites Wissen" und Gesellschaftsbilder: Ein kognitionstheoretischer Streifzug durch soziale Wahrnehmungsfelder

Abstract: In this paper another important 'building block' will be offered which, in combination with the previous Research Paper (Nr. 14) provides essentially new strategies for complex analyses of contemporary 'knowledge and information societies'. Within the present paper, three different topics will be investigated. First, empirical results form a large representative social survey will be analyzed with respect to the domain of 'social cognition', i.e. with respect to the attribution of social positions and social strata. Second, the various 'implicit' routines and practices, running under the common label of 'social cognition', will be analyzed by using contemporary models of cognitive science. Finally, a special model of 'evolutionary learning' (Classifier Systems and Genetic Algorithms) will be used in order to account for the seemingly paradoxical and counter-intuitive responses in the field of 'social cognition' which have been encountered in the first part of the article.;