Constructing Social Reality

Author : Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781453215463

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The Social Construction of Reality by Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann Pdf

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 : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781439108369

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The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle Pdf

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 : Herbert Bless,Klaus Fiedler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317715399

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Social Cognition by Herbert Bless,Klaus Fiedler Pdf

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 : Michael Karlberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0920904327

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Constructing Social Reality by Michael Karlberg Pdf

Author : Sally Haslanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199892648

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Resisting Reality by Sally Haslanger Pdf

Contemporary theorists use the term "social construction" with the aim of exposing how what's purportedly "natural" is often at least partly social and, more specifically, how this masking of the social is politically significant. In these previously published essays, Sally Haslanger draws on insights from feminist and critical race theory to explore and develop the idea that gender and race are positions within a structure of social relations. On this interpretation, the point of saying that gender and race are socially constructed is not to make a causal claim about the origins of our concepts of gender and race, or to take a stand in the nature/nurture debate, but to locate these categories within a realist social ontology. This is politically important, for by theorizing how gender and race fit within different structures of social relations we are better able to identify and combat forms of systematic injustice. Although the central essays of the book focus on a critical social realism about gender and race, these accounts function as case studies for a broader critical social realism. To develop this broader approach, several essays offer reworked notions of ideology, practice, and social structure, drawing on recent research in sociology and social psychology. Ideology, on the proposed view, is a relatively stable set of shared dispositions to respond to the world, often in ways that also shape the world to evoke those very dispositions. This looping of our dispositions through the material world enables the social to appear natural. Additional essays in the book situate this approach to social phenomena in relation to philosophical methodology, and to specific debates in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of language. The book as a whole explores the interface between analytic philosophy and critical theory.

Author : Loretta Brunious
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351226929

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Constructing Social Reality by Loretta Brunious Pdf

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 : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107024373

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The Reality of Social Construction by Dave Elder-Vass Pdf

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

Author : Barry Smith,David Mark,Isaac Ehrlich
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812699333

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The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality by Barry Smith,David Mark,Isaac Ehrlich Pdf

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 : Jonathan Potter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0803984111

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Representing Reality by Jonathan Potter Pdf

`This is an admirable book which can be recommended to students with confidence, and is likely also to become an indispensable source of reference for those researching fact construction' - Discourse & Society How is reality manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, and how, and even what constructionism means, is often unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter offers a fascinating tour of the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality overviews the different traditions in constructionist thought. Points are illustrated throughout with

Author : Antonio Sandu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443894265

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Social Construction of Reality as Communicative Action by Antonio Sandu Pdf

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.

Author : Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402061042

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Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts by Savas L. Tsohatzidis Pdf

Ten original essays examine the central themes of John Searle’s ontology of society. Written by an international team of philosophers and social scientists, the essays contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle’s work. Moreover, these essays open the door to new approaches to addressing fundamental questions about social phenomena. This book also features a new essay by Searle himself that summarizes and further develops his work.

Author : Lee Jussim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199710614

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Social Perception and Social Reality by Lee Jussim Pdf

Social Perception and Social Reality contests the received wisdom in the field of social psychology that suggests that social perception and judgment are generally flawed, biased, and powerfully self-fulfilling. Jussim reviews a wealth of real world, survey, and experimental data collected over the last century to show that in fact, social psychological research consistently demonstrates that biases and self-fulfilling prophecies are generally weak, fragile, and fleeting. Furthermore, research in the social sciences has shown stereotypes to be accurate. Jussim overturns the received wisdom concerning social perception in several ways. He critically reviews studies that are highly cited darlings of the bias conclusion and shows how these studies demonstrate far more accuracy than bias, or are not replicable in subsequent research. Studies of equal or higher quality, which have been replicated consistently, are shown to demonstrate high accuracy, low bias, or both. The book is peppered with discussions suggesting that theoretical and political blinders have led to an odd state of affairs in which the flawed or misinterpreted bias studies receive a great deal of attention, while stronger and more replicable accuracy studies receive relatively little attention. In addition, the author presents both personal and real world examples (such as stock market prices, sporting events, and political elections) that routinely undermine heavy-handed emphases on error and bias, but are generally indicative of high levels of rationality and accuracy. He fully embraces scientific data, even when that data yields unpopular conclusions or contests prevailing conventions or the received wisdom in psychology, in other social sciences, and in broader society.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674254275

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The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking Pdf

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social construction, Ian Hacking reminds us. His book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology. He looks at the issue of child abuse—very much a reality, though the idea of child abuse is a social product. He also cautiously examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. In conclusion, Hacking comments on the “culture wars” in anthropology, in particular a spat between leading ethnographers over Hawaii and Captain Cook. Written with generosity and gentle wit by one of our most distinguished philosophers of science, this wise book brings a much needed measure of clarity to current arguments about the nature of knowledge.

Author : Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521326896

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The Construction of Reality by Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse Pdf

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

Author : Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1987-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226774848

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Constructing Social Theories by Arthur L. Stinchcombe Pdf

Constructing Social Theories presents to the reader a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied. Arthur L. Stinchcombe argues that theories should not be invented in the abstract—or applied a priori to a problem—but should be dictated by the nature of the data to be explained. This work was awarded the Sorokin prize by the American Sociological Association as the book that made an outstanding contribution to the progress of sociology in 1970.