The Construction Of Social Reality

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439108366
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Construction of Social Reality written by John R. Searle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch. In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453215468
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Construction of Reality written by Peter L. Berger and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.

Author : Barry Smith
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 0812699335
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality written by Barry Smith and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital shifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations. This collection of essays assembles 21 philosophers, economists, and political scientists to help readers understand these exciting new theories.

Author : Sally Haslanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199892644
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resisting Reality written by Sally Haslanger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice. Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realism about gender and race, these accounts function as case studies for a broader critical social realism. To develop this broader approach, several essays offer reworked notions of ideology, practice, and social structure, drawing on recent research in sociology and social psychology. Ideology, on the proposed view, is a relatively stable set of shared dispositions to respond to the world, often in ways that also shape the world to evoke those very dispositions. This looping of our dispositions through the material world enables the social to appear natural. Additional essays in the book situate this approach to social phenomena in relation to philosophical methodology, and to specific debates in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. The book as a whole explores the interface between analytic philosophy and critical theory.

Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107024374
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reality of Social Construction written by Dave Elder-Vass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that versions of realist and social constructionist ways of thinking about the social world are compatible with each other.

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402061048
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts written by Savas L. Tsohatzidis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, the essays contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle’s work. Moreover, these essays open the door to new approaches to addressing fundamental questions about social phenomena. This book also features a new essay by Searle himself that summarizes and further develops his work.

Author : Joshua Rust
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144152
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality written by Joshua Rust and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 John Searle published The Construction of Social Reality, a text which not only promises to disclose the institutional backdrop against which speech takes place, but initiate a new "philosophy of society." Since then The Construction of Social Reality has been subject to a flurry of criticism. While many of Searle's interlocutors share the sense that the text marks an important breakthrough, he has time and again accused critics of misunderstanding his claims. Despite Searle's characteristic crispness and clarity there remains some confusion, among both philosophers and sociologists, regarding the significance of his proposals. This book traces some of the high points of this dialogue, leveraging Searle's own clarifications to propose a new way of understanding the text. In particular, Joshua Rust looks to Max Weber in suggesting that Searle has articulated an ideal type. In locating The Construction of Social Reality under the umbrella of one of sociology's founding fathers, this book not only makes Searle's text more accessible to the readers in the social sciences, but presents Max Weber as a thinker worthy of philosophical reconsideration. Moreover, the recharacterization of Searle's claims in terms of the ideal type helps facilitate a comparison between Searle and other social theorists such as Talcott Parsons.

Author : Joshua Rust
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144152
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Searle and the Construction of Social Reality written by Joshua Rust and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995 John Searle published The Construction of Social Reality, a text which not only promises to disclose the institutional backdrop against which speech takes place, but initiate a new "philosophy of society." Since then The Construction of Social Reality has been subject to a flurry of criticism. While many of Searle's interlocutors share the sense that the text marks an important breakthrough, he has time and again accused critics of misunderstanding his claims. Despite Searle's characteristic crispness and clarity there remains some confusion, among both philosophers and sociologists, regarding the significance of his proposals. This book traces some of the high points of this dialogue, leveraging Searle's own clarifications to propose a new way of understanding the text. In particular, Joshua Rust looks to Max Weber in suggesting that Searle has articulated an ideal type. In locating The Construction of Social Reality under the umbrella of one of sociology's founding fathers, this book not only makes Searle's text more accessible to the readers in the social sciences, but presents Max Weber as a thinker worthy of philosophical reconsideration. Moreover, the recharacterization of Searle's claims in terms of the ideal type helps facilitate a comparison between Searle and other social theorists such as Talcott Parsons.

Author : Emanuele Fadda
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869848
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Social Reality written by Emanuele Fadda and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searle's theory of social reality is increasingly meeting with worldwide recognition, and is undoubtedly the most prominent theory of social ontology (at least in the post-analytical tradition), even if actual research in this domain is engaged in critical confrontation with it. Searle's approach continues to shape the debate, but his construction is more and more sharply dissected, both in its details and in its general assumptions. Furthermore, new perspectives, not rooted in the analytical...

Author : Peter Ludwig Berger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Construction of Reality written by Peter Ludwig Berger and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: