Social Reality
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:17th Apr '97
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Social reality is currently a hotly debated topic not only in social science, but also in philosophy and the other humanities. Finn Collin, in this concise guide, asks if social reality is created by the way social agents conceive of it? Is there a difference between the kind of existence attributed to social and to physical facts - do physical facts enjoy a more independent existence? To what extent is social reality a matter of social convention.
Finn Collin considers a number of traditional doctrines which support the constructivist position that social reality is generated by our 'interpretation' of it. He also examines the way social facts are contingent upon the meaning invested in them by social agents; the nature of social convention; the status of social facts as symbolic; the ways in which socially shared language is claimed to generate the reality described, as well as the limitations of some of the over-ambitious popular arguments for social constructivism.
'One of the remarkable things about the book is its philosophical sophistication in bringing to bear recent work on matters of social thought ... It is exceptionally written - lucid and plain in an arena that is fraught with stridency.' - Ian Jarvie, York University
ISBN: 9780415147972
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 490g
266 pages