The Construction Of Reality

Author : Peter L. Berger,Thomas Luckmann
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : John R. Searle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Michael A. Arbib,Mary B. Hesse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Nick Couldry,Andreas Hepp
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745686516

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The Mediated Construction of Reality by Nick Couldry,Andreas Hepp Pdf

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media's profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?

Author : Antonio Sandu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Hubert Knoblauch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429775338

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The Communicative Construction of Reality by Hubert Knoblauch Pdf

This volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits, and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society, The Communicative Construction of Reality shows how communication society does not merely replace modern society and its hierarchical institutions, but complements it in a manner that continually results in conflicts leading to the refiguration of society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the sociology of knowledge, communication, and social theory.

Author : David Reiss
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Families
ISBN : 0674294165

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The Family's Construction of Reality by David Reiss Pdf

David Reiss presents a new model of family interaction grounded in the subtle and complex way in which a family constructs its inner life and deals with the outside world. Based upon fifteen years of research, the book offers a new understanding of the covert processes that hold a family together and, with distressing frequency, pull it apart.

Author : George William Grace
Publisher : George Grace
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0709938861

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The Linguistic Construction of Reality by George William Grace Pdf

Author : Dave Elder-Vass
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Jonathan Potter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Jean Piaget
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781136316944

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The Construction Of Reality In The Child by Jean Piaget Pdf

This is Volume XX of thirty-two in the Developmental Psychology series. Initially published in 1954, in Piaget’s words the study of sensorimotor or practical intelligence in the first two years of development has taught us how the child, at first directly assimilating the external environment to his own activity, later, in order to extend this assimilation, forms an increasing number of schemata which are both more mobile and better able to inter-coordinate. This study looks at the second part of evolution of sensorimotor intelligence, as the description of behavior no longer suffices to account for these new products of intellectual activity; it is the subject’s own interpretation of things which we must now try to analyze.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781459605596

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The Symbolic Construction of Reality by Jeffrey Andrew Barash Pdf

In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874 - 1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy influence on American culture. His most important early writings focused on the symbol and symbolic...

Author : Andreas Hepp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351064880

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Deep Mediatization by Andreas Hepp Pdf

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are discussed in isolation, losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures, and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change; instead, it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a 'good life' for all. Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies, as well as neighboring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines.

Author : Sally Haslanger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 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.