[PDF] The Construction Of Social Reality eBook

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 14,21 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 : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 35,14 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 : Sally Anne Haslanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 23,7 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 : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 32,37 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 : Barry Smith
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 14,4 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.

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,13 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 : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674812000

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking’s book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality—especially regarding the status of the natural sciences.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 1992-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0679741453

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It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America. In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians—Black and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history. With contributions by: Homi K. Bhabha, Margaret A. Burnham, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Paula Giddings, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Wahneema Lubiano, Manning Marable, Nellie Y. McKay, Toni Morrison, Nell Irvin Painter, Gayle Pemberton, Andrew Ross, Christine Stansell, Carol M. Swain, Michael Thelwell, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West, Patricia J. Williams

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 1986-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521326893

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This book presents an integrated account of how humans 'construct' reality through interaction with the social and physical world around them.

Author : Antonio Sandu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1443894265

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The central focus of this volume is social constructionism in all its dimensions, including its sociological, ontological, epistemological, methodological, ethical, and pragmatic features. It pays particularly close attention to the social construction of reality as a communicative action, extending this area to include social pragmatics. It also interprets social action as a discursive-seductive strategy of exercising power in the public space, utilising a constructionist understanding, in which public space is represented by any part of the co-construction of reality through social or communicative action. In addition, at the methodological level, the book proposes a new semiotic strategy, called “fractal constructionism”, which analyses the interpretative drift of certain key concepts that are valued as social constructs.