Programme in Culture and Cognition

The Programme in Culture and Cognition (PCC) brings together a number of scholars and students at the LSE whose research focuses on the relationship between psychological development and the socio-cultural environments in which humans live.

We assume that learning is everywhere enabled and constrained by the evolved cognitive abilities of our species; but also that it is enabled and constrained by the variable socio-cultural environments in which it is situated.

We approach the study of these phenomena from a number of disciplinary perspectives (including those of cognitive anthropology, social psychology and philosophy). Among other things, we are engaged in programmes of empirical research on the social and cultural contexts of learning.

In the 2006/7 academic session, we will be holding a special seminar series on culture and cognition. The LSE also offers two MSc degrees which are linked to this programme. (see Programmes of Study)