ABSTRACT
This chapter starts by reviewing and drawing links between the shared, synergistic, and complementary theoretical tenets from the literatures on neocortical schema development, information processing, and social cognition in order to lay a computational-representational paradigm-based account of subjectification and social reproduction. These tenets and account are then synthesised within a modified version of Pierre Bourdieu’s habitus construct to formulate a testable model of everyday neoliberal reproduction. More specifically, this model provides a framework for explaining and empirically exploring some of the typical dispositional values, attitudes, and practices that people raised in societies with institutionally and culturally prevalent neoliberal discursive formations may potentially develop and enact. The chapter ends with a discussion of this model’s critical realist ontological and epistemological foundations.
