Making The Social World

Author : John Searle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199745862

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Making the Social World by John Searle Pdf

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality--a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox he addresses in Making the Social World is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line of investigation begun in his earlier book The Construction of Social Reality, Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all "institutional facts." His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry and biology. Searle explains how a single linguistic operation, repeated over and over, is used to create and maintain the elaborate structures of human social institutions. These institutions serve to create and distribute power relations that are pervasive and often invisible. These power relations motivate human actions in a way that provides the glue that holds human civilization together. Searle then applies the account to show how it relates to human rationality, the freedom of the will, the nature of political power and the existence of universal human rights. In the course of his explication, he asks whether robots can have institutions, why the threat of force so often lies behind institutions, and he denies that there can be such a thing as a "state of nature" for language-using human beings.

Author : Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506364100

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Making Sense of the Social World by Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt Pdf

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. Congratulations to Daniel F. Chambliss, winner of the ASA Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Prize for 2018. The new Sixth Edition of Making Sense of the Social World continues to be an unusually accessible and student-friendly introduction to the variety of social research methods, guiding undergraduate readers to understand research in their roles as consumers and novice producers of social science. Known for its concise, casual, and clear writing, its balanced treatment of quantitative and qualitative approaches, and its integrated approach to the fundamentals, the text has much to offer both novice researchers and more advanced students alike. The authors use a wide variety of examples from formal studies and everyday experiences to illustrate important principles and techniques. A Complete Teaching & Learning Package SAGE coursepacks FREE! Easily import our quality instructor and student resource content into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. SAGE edge FREE online resources for students that make learning easier.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 019026764X

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Making the Social World by John R. Searle Pdf

John Searle offers a profound understanding of how we create a social reality - a reality of money, property, governments, marriages, stock markets and cocktail parties. The paradox addressed is that these facts only exist because we think they exist and yet they have an objective existence. Continuing a line begun in his 'The Construction of Social Reality', Searle identifies the precise role of language in the creation of all 'institutional facts'. His aim is to show how mind, language and civilization are natural products of the basic facts of the physical world described by physics, chemistry & biology.

Author : Amitabha Das Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429534379

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Meaning, Agency and the Making of a Social World by Amitabha Das Gupta Pdf

This book explores a vital but neglected element in the philosophy of social science – the complex nature of the social world. By a systematic philosophical engagement, it conceives the social world in terms of three basic concerns: epistemic, methodological and ethical. It examines how we cognize, study and ethically interact with the social world. As such, it demonstrates that a discussion of ethics is epistemically indispensable to the making of the social world. The book presents a new interpretation of philosophy of social science and addresses a series of related topics, including the role of the human subject in the context of scientific knowledge, objectivity, historicity, meaning and nature of social reality, social and literary theory, scientific methodology and fact/value dichotomy, human and collective agency and the limits to relativism. Examining each in turn, it argues that the social world is constructed through human actions and becomes significant because we ascribe meaning to it. This is organized around discussions on the meaning, agency and the making of a social world. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy of social science, political philosophy and sociology.

Author : W. Barnett Pearce
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470766408

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Making Social Worlds by W. Barnett Pearce Pdf

Making Social Worlds: A Communication Perspective offers the most accessible introduction to the tools and concepts of CMM – Coordinated Management of Meaning – one of the groundbreaking theories of speech communication. Draws upon advances in research for the most up-to-date concepts in speech communication Defines the 'critical moments' of communication for students and practitioners; encouraging us to view communication as a two-sided process of coordinating actions and making/managing meanings Questions how we can intervene in dangerous or undesirable patterns of communication that will result in better social worlds

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262250616

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Rationality in Action by John R. Searle Pdf

The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false. He then presents an alternative theory of the role of rationality in thought and action. A central point of Searle's theory is that only irrational actions are directly caused by beliefs and desires—for example, the actions of a person in the grip of an obsession or addiction. In most cases of rational action, there is a gap between the motivating desire and the actual decision making. The traditional name for this gap is "freedom of the will." According to Searle, all rational activity presupposes free will. For rationality is possible only where one has a choice among various rational as well as irrational options. Unlike many philosophical tracts, Rationality in Action invites the reader to apply the author's ideas to everyday life. Searle shows, for example, that contrary to the traditional philosophical view, weakness of will is very common. He also points out the absurdity of the claim that rational decision making always starts from a consistent set of desires. Rational decision making, he argues, is often about choosing between conflicting reasons for action. In fact, humans are distinguished by their ability to be rationally motivated by desire-independent reasons for action. Extending his theory of rationality to the self, Searle shows how rational deliberation presupposes an irreducible notion of the self. He also reveals the idea of free will to be essentially a thesis of how the brain works.

Author : Alex Law
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473911147

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Social Theory for Today by Alex Law Pdf

This book is distinctive for extending the usual sociological reach, reopening territory that has lain fallow, set aside from the well-ploughed fields of orthodox social theory. In doing so, Law not only produces fresh insight into familiar theorists but guards against collective forgetting of the sociological canon. - Professor Bridget Fowler, University of Glasgow "An excellent book, it will be welcomed and read widely by advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars in sociology, cultural studies, social theory and beyond." - Professor Chris Shilling, University of Kent Social Theory for Today guides students through the ‘turns’ of past and present social theory as it attempts to wrestle with a recurring sense of crisis in social relations and social theory. Drawing on both classical and contemporary sources, Alex Law provides readers with a firm grasp of competing perspectives. Too often social theories attempt to dominate the field by casting rival theorists, past and present, as deluded fools, while the more familiar ‘big names’ in social theory are subject to ever-increasing commentary that runs in ever-decreasing circles. This survey of social theory and crisis lessens the temptation to engage in internal theoretical polemics and esoteric wordplay. Social theory must become practical and specific if it is to become a means of orientation for uncertain times. This is a must-read for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students looking for a vibrant and extended understanding of social theory.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231137522

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Freedom and Neurobiology by John R. Searle Pdf

"In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives - money, property, marriage, government - consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Martyn Hudson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000428308

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Visualising Worlds by Martyn Hudson Pdf

This book examines the social production of our world, of the worlds of the past and of the worlds of the future, considering the ways in which worlds are created in both actuality and imagination. Bringing together central concepts of classical sociology, including social change, transformation, individuation, collectivisation and human imagination and practice, it draws lessons from the collapse of Graeco-Roman antiquity for our own world of virus and ecological disasters, considers the genesis of capitalism and intimates its ending. Rooted in classical sociology yet challenging its traditions and objects of study, Visualising Worlds: World-Making and Social Theory adopts new ways of thinking about visuality, aesthetics and how we ‘see’ social worlds, and how we then begin to build them. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory, historical sociology, cultural studies, critical theory, archaeology, and the emergence, change and collapse of civilisations.

Author : Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 141292717X

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Making Sense of the Social World by Daniel F. Chambliss,Russell K. Schutt Pdf

Provides an introduction to social research. This book presents research methods as an integrated whole, with balanced treatment of qualitative and quantitative methods, integration of substantive examples and research techniques, and consistent attention to the goal of validity and the standards of ethical practice.

Author : Steven E. Barkan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1936126532

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Sociology by Steven E. Barkan Pdf

Author : Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Michelle Garcia Winner
Publisher : Social Cognitive Deficits
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Behavior modification
ISBN : 0979292204

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Social Behavior Mapping by Michelle Garcia Winner Pdf

Author : Charles Camic,Neil Gross,Michèle Lamont
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226092102

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Social Knowledge in the Making by Charles Camic,Neil Gross,Michèle Lamont Pdf

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.