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A meta-field that applies sociological, anthropological, and historical methods to the cognitive sciences (psychology, neuroscience, AI, linguistics, philosophy of mind). It examines how cognitive science laboratories are organized, how interdisciplinary collaborations work (or fail), how funding priorities shape research agendas, and how cognitive theories reflect cultural assumptions about mind, rationality, and personhood. The social sciences of cognitive sciences ask: why has the computational model of mind dominated? How do cognitive scientists define “cognition” and what is left out? It reveals that the study of mind is itself a socially embedded activity.
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