Social reality /
The nature of social reality is a key problem in the philosophy of social science. This book outlines the major issues - historical and contemporary - raised by social reality and social facts. What, after all, are we talking about when we talk about social reality and the facts of social life? Soci...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1997.
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Colección: | Problems of philosophy (Routledge & Kegan Paul)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Social facts as constructions
- Clarifications of the construction claim
- Contrasting issues in social science
- Another programme of social constructivism
- Construction and causal generation
- Philosophical issues in constructivism
- Implications for philosophy and the social sciences
- I. Ethnomethodology
- II. The Cultural Relativity Argument
- III. Social Constructivism and the Sociology of Knowledge: Berger and Luckmann
- IV. The Linguistic Relativity Argument
- V. The Arguments from the 'Meaningfulness' of Action: The phenomenological argument
- VI. The Arguments from the 'Meaningfulness' of Action: The hermeneutic argument
- VII. The Argument from the Symbolic Nature of Social Facts
- VIII. The Argument from Convention.