[PDF] Constructing Social Reality eBook

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468

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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 : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439108366

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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 : Sally Anne Haslanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199892628

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In this collection of previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory and on the resources of contemporary analytic philosophy to develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. Explicating the workings of these interlocking structures provides tools for understanding and combatting social injustice.

Author : Herbert Bless
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 131771539X

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How do people think about the world? How do individuals make sense of their complex social environment? What are the underlying mechanisms that determine our understanding of the social world? Social cognition - the study of the specific cognitive processes that are involved when we think about the social world - attempts to answer these questions. Social cognition is an increasingly important and influential area of social psychology, impacting on areas such as attitude change and person perception. This introductory textbook provides the student with comprehensive coverage of the core topics in the field: how social information is encoded, stored and retrieved from memory; how social knowledge is structured and represented; and what processes are involved when individuals form judgements and make decisions. The overall aim is to highlight the main concepts and how they interrelate, providing the student with an insight into the whole social cognition framework. With this in mind, the first two chapters provide an overview of the sequence of information processing and outline general principles. Subsequent chapters build on these foundations by providing more in-depth discussion of memory, judgemental heuristics, the use of information, hypothesis-testing in social interaction and the interplay of affect and cognition. Social Cognition will be essential reading for students and researchers in psychology, communication studies, and sociology.

Author : Loretta J. Brunious
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415932592

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107024374

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Argues that versions of realist and social constructionist ways of thinking about the social world are compatible with each other.

Author : Loretta Brunious
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351226924

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This book examines how black children who grow up in an impoverished environment construct their social reality, and why this process is a particulary critical factor in their perception and creation of self. It argues that black disadvantaged children develop a lifestyle and adopt values based on an identity grounded in racism, inequality, violence and poverty. "Constructing Social Relaity: Self Portraits of poor Black Adolescents" makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship by investigating the phenomena of poverty from cognitive, linguistic, and experiential persepctives in the lives of disadvantaged black adolescents.

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745686516

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Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital medias profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?

Author : Barry Smith
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812699335

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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.