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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collin, Finn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
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.